The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Robert Penn Warren
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More quotes by Robert Penn Warren
- The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
- How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
- The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.