Shakespeare - The Early Years

Wine is bottled poetry. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Music is the poetry of the air. - Jean Paul Richter

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes

I like Beethoven, especially the poems. - Ringo Starr

That's not writing, that's typing. - Truman Capote

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

You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. - Robert Frost

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

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. - Leo Tolstoy

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

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything. - Ivana Trump

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book. - Shereen El Feki

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. - Tabitha King

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

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. - Rainer M. Rilke

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. - W H Auden

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

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

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. - Christopher P. Rubero

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

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare... neither knew chocolate. - Sandra Boynton

The writing of more than 75 poems in any fiscal year should be punishable by a fine of $500. - Ed Sanders

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. - Jack Nicholson

I'm a games and theory king of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose. - Neil Patrick Harris

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in. - Brendan Behan

I met a man at a party. He said, "I'm writing a novel." I said, "Oh, really? Neither am I." - Peter Cook

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

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking and writing. - Isaac B Singer

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

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing. - Benjamin Franklin

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces. - Frederic Gros