Poems By Letter

Results

Displaying 1 to 25 of 159 results
1    2    3    4    5    6    7    Next>  

Poem Title   Author
 
 
Names of Horses
Nov. 5, 1994
 
Naming for Love
Aug. 5, 2006
 
Naming My Daughter
Mar. 27, 2010
 
Naming the Animals
Feb. 20, 1997
Jun. 26, 2008
 
Naming the Animals
Nov. 11, 1997
 
Naming the Baby
Jun. 3, 2014
 
 
 
Narrative
Jul. 6, 2013
 
Natural History
Jul. 11, 1997
 
Natural History
May. 17, 2012
 
Nature Knows Best
Jan. 24, 1994
 
Nearing Menopause, I Run into Elvis at Shoprite
Aug. 29, 2003
 
Negative Space
Oct. 7, 2014
 
Neighbors in October
Oct. 27, 2013
 
 
Nell Flaherty's Drake
Feb. 16, 1996
 
Nell Flaherty's Drake
Feb. 16, 1995
 
Never give all the heart
Jun. 13, 2008
 
Never love unlesse you can
Mar. 24, 1998
Jan. 24, 2001
 
Never Mind
Nov. 28, 2011
 
New Age, The
Jul. 31, 1994
 
New England Weather
Jul. 2, 2012
 

1    2    3    4    5    6    7    Next>  



«

»

  • “Writers end up writing stories—or rather, stories' shadows—and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough” —Joy Williams
  • “I want to live other lives. I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get. Writing is my way of making other chances.” —Anne Tyler
  • “Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig” —Stephen Greenblatt
  • “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.” —John Edgar Wideman
  • “In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.” —Denise Levertov
  • “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” —E.L. Doctorow
  • “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” —E.L. Doctorow
  • “Let's face it, writing is hell.” —William Styron
  • “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” —Thomas Mann
  • “Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.” —Paul Rudnick
  • “Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.” —Padget Powell
  • “Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.” —Shelby Foote
  • “I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.” —William Carlos Williams
  • “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.” —Iris Murdoch
  • “The less conscious one is of being ‘a writer,’ the better the writing.” —Pico Iyer
  • “Writing is…that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.” —Pico Iyer
  • “Writing is my dharma.” —Raja Rao
  • “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell
  • “I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.” —Michael Cunningham
Current Faves - Learn more about poets featured frequently on the show