Irrfan Khan Quotes

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

I've written poetry most of my life.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

I like to write poetry.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!