Quote There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes its like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges. Ernest Hemingway
Quote I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it. Ernest Hemingway
Quote Quote from “Attributed” I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. Pablo Neruda
Quote Quote from “Poetic Manifesto, Texas Quarterly (Winter 1961)” You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. Dylan Thomas
Quote Quote from “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (1849)” My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
Quote Quote from “Preface To Lyrical Ballads (1800)” Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth
Quote Quote from “Letter To Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870)” If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way? Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “Personal Letter (1872)” A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson
Quote Quote from “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (2010)” Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. Maya Angelou
Quote Quote from “Boy: Tales Of Childhood” Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. Roald Dahl
