Ho Chi Minh Quotes

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

Actually, I'm working on a book of poetry.

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

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

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

I've written poetry most of my life.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

Poetry is an act of peace.

I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences the way prose writers do but also in lines. So we're doing these two things at the same time.

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.

My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

I thought and dreamed of nothing else but the steel works.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.

Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.

As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.