1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

I like writing organically. So I don’t force anything out. I allow myself to be. I allow myself to feel. I allow the words to come to me like the wind. And I try to catch whatever message that is whispered in the breeze.

Most times the poetic in life is found in many things around us. You would find it in the deft play of a football player on a soccer pitch. An orange sky with the descending sun at twilight. The laughter of a toddler playing with dirt. Or the feel of the wind caressing your face. Poetry most times is found in the profound.

For me poetry is not the exclusive domain of academia. Stuff to be studied and dissected in college classrooms like a lab rat to find out what makes it thick. It is a form of human expression. The transference of human emotion from one person to another whether it is written or performed.

They were coming again, thosewords insistent as his hands had been, pounding inside me, demanding their time and place. I relaxed as my hands moved across the paper like one possessed.

The best poetry comes from nowhere.

Write fast - poetry inspiration ebbs and flows.

I highly idealize writers for a writer is the whole box of wax. He is a felon and arm of the law, a faithful lover and a depraved lecher, a patriot and a traitor all at the same time. Because he has to have his perceptions imbued with every character he wishes to write upon.

As a writer I could die, and die and die over and over again. It doesn't matter to me, as long as my writing lives on.

Let's continue with the work: that is, writing to heal millions of people.