"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it." ― Robert Penn Warren Topic(s): Poetry More From Robert Penn Warren "How do poems grow? They grow out of your life." "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." More In Poetry "There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."― Gyorgy Ligeti "Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."― Robert Frost "The cliche is dead poetry."― Gerald Brenan