Quotes and Sayings about Poets

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Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

John Green

Writing Introvertierte Sprüche

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

Words Love Writing

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

Ka Hancock

Stories Writing

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Roald Dahl

Writing

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Stories Writing

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Joanne K. Rowling

Writing

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

Rod Serling

Writing Freedom Journalism

I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

Joanne K. Rowling - September 2012

Writing Depression

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing Sentences

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Ken Follett

Stories Writing

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Lewis Carroll

Writing Talking

I listen to my words, but they fall far below
I let my music take me, where my heart wants to go

Cat Stevens - The Wind

Music Writing

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

Maurice Sendak

Children & Childhood Books Writing

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Words Poetry Writing

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Stephen King in The Stand

Words Writing

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears.

Neil Postman

Words Writing

Pen, paper and books are the gunpowder of the mind.

Neil Postman

Books Mind & Apprehension Writing

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together. They like being solitary together.

Neil Gaiman

Writing Solitude & Loneliness

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Writing

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

Books Writing Imagination

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

T. S. Eliot

Writing Poems

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing Inspiration

I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist.

Denise Levertov

Poems

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Dylan Thomas

Poems

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Abbas Kiarostami

Poems

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Howard Nemerov

Writing Poems

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Pablo Neruda

Peace Poems Bread

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Appearance Poems

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Poems

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

Jaime Gil de Biedma

Poems

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep,
I am a thousands winds that blow,
I am the diamond glint on snow,
I am the sunnlight in ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I do not die.

Mary Elizabeth Frye - Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep (Gedicht)

Death Grief & Condolence Poems

What was it when I looked at you
What power has chained me through and through
And binds my heart with links so tight
I can not live without the sight - of you

King's Quest - VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow

Poems

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared

2Pac - The Rose That Grew From Concrete, Album: The Rose That Grew From Concrete Vol. 1

Ambition Poems Beginning

When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

John F. Kennedy

Poetry Power Poems Arroganz

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