Shakespeare - The Early Years
Inspiration for a spot o' Macbeth
'Out, damned spot! out, I say!' - Macbeth Act V, Scene I
QuotaBillsDancing 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