For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became... →
Alice Walker
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
Margaret Walker
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Horace Walpole
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and... →
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
Dylan Walsh
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides... →
Jess Walter
My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write... →
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes... →
Jesmyn Ward
I love to write poetry.
Shayne Ward
When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion... →
Malcolm-Jamal Warner