Writing Poems Quotations

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.