#poe

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#had #i #plays #poems #started

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#began #british #entering #felt #first

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#go #poets #through #tough #use

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#die #first #i #like #live

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#call #himself #i #i think #poet

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#i #i am #naked #people #people say

It's not easy to define poetry. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#easy #poetry

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#being #competitions #creative #creative writing #enter

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life. ↗

— C.D. Wright

#life