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• Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

  Richard Wilbur

  Writing, Self, Talking

  "Richard Wilbur, Winner of the 1957 Poetry Award for Things of This World". Acceptance Speech, www.nationalbook.org. 1957.

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• The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life - when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Fun, Real

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• Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

  Ted Nelson

  Writing, Design, Program

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• Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

  Kenneth Slessor

  Writing, Hell, Pleasure

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• I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

  Shelby Foote

  Writing, Hands, Trying

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• But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Girl, Writing, Doe

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• Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Children, Fun, Blessed

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• Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

  Alice Notley

  Writing, Poetry Is, Knows

  "A Quick Interview With Alice Notley". Interview with Corey Zeller, ampersandreview.com. May 11, 2014.

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• In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, Writing, Past

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• I no longer feel I'll be dead by thirty; now it's sixty. I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it. I'm still
  writing, I'm still writing poetry, I still can't explain why, and I'm still running out of time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Writing, Appreciate

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  C. K. Williams

  Writing, Waiting, Ordinary

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• A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Apology, Thinking

  "Maya Angelou: 'I make no apologies for writing a cookbook'" by John Crace, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2011.

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• Writing poetry is a state of free float.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Poetry, States

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

  Sidney Lanier

  Writing, Soul, Trying

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• I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Book, Writing, Firsts

  "Taslima Nasrin and the Struggle Against Religious Fundamentalism". Interview with ISIS, www.taslimanasrin.com.

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• I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

  Christina Perri

  Brother, Writing, School

  "Rising Star: Christina Perri". www.seventeen.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Tools, Tribes

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• You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

  Vikram Seth

  Writing, Imagine, Novel

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• I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

  Mariah Carey

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

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• Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.

  Barbara Holland

  Art, Reading, Writing

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

  John Hegley

  Writing, May, Remember

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• I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

  Grace Cavalieri

  Writing, World, Safe

  "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Photography, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

  Denise Levertov

  Writing, Animal, Discovery

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