Dorothy Parker Quotes

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

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life.

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

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

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

So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.

I was well read and knew languages, but I didn't want to become Ezra Pound. I wanted to write poetry that people like my parents might respond to.

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

'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me to continue writing poetry and we talked a lot about our favourite poets. My wrap present from Robin was a beautiful limited edition copy of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' and that's a great memory for me.

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.

I always turn to Frank O'Hara and David Berman's 'Actual Air,' which came out in 1999. He's a poet I haven't tired of.

Yes, I do write poetry. It's very therapeutic. I'm influenced by Pablo Neruda and Gulzar Saab. It's all very personal.