All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world.... →
Flea
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on... →
Alex Flinn
I believe poetry has very little to do with memory.
Nick Flynn
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at... →
Shelby Foote
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry... →
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
John Fowles