Marge Simon Quotes

I love writing shorter fiction.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I like to write poetry.

I love to write poetry.

I'm really into poetry.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

I like poems that are complex.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.