“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman
“We are all writing God's poem.”
As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2
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Carl Andre
(1935) American artist
Quote from a 1962 essay by Andre; as quoted in ' Objects Are What We Aren't' https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/02/26/objects-are-what-we-arent/, by Andy Battaglia; The Parish Review, February 26, 2015
“We do not write poems with ideas, but with words.”
Stéphane Mallarmé
(1842–1898) French Symbolist poet
Ce n'est pas avec des idées qu'on fait des vers, c'est avec des mots.
A remark reported in Psychologie de l'art (1927) by Henri Delacroix, p. 93; as translated in Literary Impressionism (1973), Maria Elisabeth Kronegger, p. 77.
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“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.”
Wisława Szymborska
(1923–2012) Polish writer
Source: Nothing Twice: Selected Poems
“…whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best.”
Randall Jarrell
(1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“Recent Poetry”, p. 227
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”
Dejan Stojanovic
(1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Is It Possible to Write a Poem?,” p. 111
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
Isabella Fyvie Mayo
(1843–1914) Scottish poet, novelist, reformer
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 388.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
“If I wasn't writing poems, I'd be washing my hands all the time.”
Sherman Alexie
(1966) Native American author and filmmaker