A Quote by Robert Penn Warren

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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Poetry Annoying Becomes Enough Having Itch Like Poetry Is Scratch Urge Write

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Robert Penn Warren
American - Novelist
April 24, 1905 - September 15, 1989

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get.

Ralph Fletcher

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

Nagarjun

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Ogden Nash

After having played serious drama for so long, I needed to scratch the itch of versatility.

Noah Wyle

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.

Romulus Linney

I am a competitor and always have that itch until the day I die, but I won't let the itch supersede being a businessman.

Bill Goldberg

A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

Shane Koyczan

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Scott Reed

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

Lea Michele

When I get an artistic itch, I have to scratch it.

Bonnie McKee

Itch to read, scratch to understand.

Peter Greenaway

Fidelity--a strong itch with a prohibition to scratch.

Julian Tuwim

One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch.

Ogden Nash

So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is God’s proof to you sent already to indicate that it’s yours. You already have it. Claim it.