Shakespeare - The Early Years

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Reverse: Repeating poetry - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Vigorous writing is concise. - William Strunk, Jr.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Poetry should only occupy the idle. - Lord Byron

I am a drinker with writing problems. - Brendan Behan

I like Beethoven, especially the poems. - Ringo Starr

A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost

This poem will never reach its destination. - Voltaire

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. - Christina Baldwin

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

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

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

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. - Michael Ondaatje

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

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

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

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

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

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. - Robert Frost

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

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. - W Somerset Maugham

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

We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. - Mother Teresa

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

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the useless things a person can do, limerick writing is right up there with golf and fishing. - Garrison Keillor

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

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

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 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

Doing well with blogging is not about writing one key post, it is about performing day after day and helping a few people at a time. - Aaron Wall

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King

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

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