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Writing can be hell. If that doesn’t deter you, then keep at it.
– Steph Post

I don’t believe in “Write what you know,” but I’m a big believer in “Know what you write.”
– Jim C. Hines

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
– June Jordan

I want my poems to be wiser than I am, to know more about themselves than I do.
– John Hollander

Poetry gives voice to the things we cannot describe. And it gives meaning to that which we cannot explain.
– Guy Stagg

Poetry as an art form gives us practice caring about others.
– Tracy K. Smith

One of the jobs of poetry is to make the unbearable bearable by clear, precise confrontation.
– Richard Wilbur

One must be ruthless with one’s own writing or someone else will be.
– John Berryman

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.
– David McCullough

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
– Joyce Cary