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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

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Quote from “1916 Letter To Louis Untermeyer”

A poem...begins as a lump in the throat,
a sense of wrong,
a homesickness,
a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry

William Butler Yeats

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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

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Quote from “Tentative (First Model) Definitions Of Poetry In Complete Poems (1950)”

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner

Carl Sandburg

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Be prepared for the next time
when pregnant thoughts give birth;
have a pen and paper ready.
Then all can read of their worth!

Paul Holmes

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I Just Write

I'm just glad that God gave me
a pen, paper, and the ability to write,
'cause when I feel like no one hears me,
I just write.

- Latesha

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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Quote from “The Diary Of A Young Girl (1942 - 1944)”

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Anne Frank

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Music Is Poetry

music is poetry,
an expression of the heart

- Kristine Black

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