Shakespeare - The Early Years

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Reverse: Repeating poetry - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

This poem will never reach its destination. - Voltaire

Television has raised writing to a new low. - Samuel Goldwyn

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. - Laini Taylor

Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop. - L.M. Montgomery

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. - Edith Sitwell

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom. - Amit Bhatia

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. - Ion Tiriac

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. - Steven Wright

Writing is throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks. - Kelly E. Lindner

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. - Walt Whitman

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T Washington

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world. - Wallace Stevens

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. - Adrian Mitchell

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it. - Anthony Storr

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. - Ernest Hemingway

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost

The dark night was the first book of poetry, and the constellations were the poems. - Chet Raymo

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up. - Ernest Hemingway

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. - Pablo Neruda

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. - Paul Dirac

My favourite poem is the one that starts, "Thirty days hath September" because it actually tells you something. - Groucho Marx

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. - Oscar Wilde

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. - Gene Fowler

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a technical challenge, just to get into it. - Ton Stoppard

When my wife says she'll be ready in 5 minutes, I know I have just enough time to fly to space and write a poem on the moon before we go. - Mike Vanatta