it takes a lot of desperation dissatisfaction and disillusion to write a few good poems.

Patience is a conquering virtue.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Patience and learning are the keys.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

Oh, speak no ill of poetry, For 'tis a holy thing.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Dis poetry is like a riddim dat drops De tongue fires a riddim dat shoots like shots...

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.