Children can write poetry and then unless they're poets they stop when reach puberty.

Even if you only want to write science fiction you should also read mysteries poetry mainstream literature history biography philosophy and science.

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could but it takes devotion and talent.

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work.

When you translate poetry in particular you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words sentences phrases the triple tension between the line of verse the syntax and the sentence.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do I'll write a bad poem.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write I believe are in your heart.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.