Daphne Gottlieb Quotes

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

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.

Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff!

The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.

When you fall in love, you don't have a whole lot of time. But when it comes to a heartache, all of the sudden you have time on your hands, and it's an outlet for you to write.

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.

But, that was the beginning, though I didn't start writing until I was in high school and when I was in high school I really began to write poetry with great energy and enthusiasm.

Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.