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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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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
OGDEN NASH I get this terrible itch. An itch I can only scratch with a pen or a keyboard.
CHARLIE JAMES Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Viole...
LIONEL SHRIVER Scratch first, itch later.
ZEN PROVERB Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The universe has an itch, and I have been called upon to scratch it.
JAMES HALAT One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH One learns to itch where one can scratch.
SCOTT REED I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.
CHRISTOPHER MELONI What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the...
CRISS JAMI 'T would make one scratch where It does not itch, to see fools live poor to die rich
THOMAS SHADWELL Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.
HARRY MENDELSON But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and tw...
JOHN CIARDI Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He wa...
MARKUS ZUSAK When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little consolation
CHINESE PROVERBS Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
UNKNOWN He has too many lice to feel an itch
CHINESE PROVERBS The itch of scribbling.
UNKNOWN The Seven Year Itch
MARILYN MONROE She's kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.
ALYSON NOEL If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if yo...
MARK TWAIN The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.
MARTY RUBIN The person with an itch can't understand why everyone's not scratching.
MARTY RUBIN A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curi...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY The insatiate itch of scribbling.
WILLIAM GIFFORD Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go
HARLAN ELLISON Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.
KINGSLEY AMIS I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until ...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I definitely have the screenwriting itch.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Honor is but an itch in youthful blood of doing acts extravagantly good
SAMUEL HOWARD Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good.
SAMUEL HOWARD The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
SIR HENRY WOTTON The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church.
GEORGE HERBERT You start to get that itch and get into the routine a little bit.
GALEN SNYDER My words itch at your ears till you understand them
WALT WHITMAN Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.
THOMAS FULLER Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a res...
C. S. LEWIS When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
SAMUEL LOVER I've always got the itch to play. I don't like sitting out too long.
ERIC BERRY When I came to the Met, Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren sounded more like basses than most of the ...
JEROME HINES I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s becau...
GILLIAN FLYNN Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.
IRISH SAYINGS I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
GILDA RADNER I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch
GILDA RADNER In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
SUSAN SONTAG Too many young people itch for what they want without scratching for it.
THOMAS TAYLOR You know, even though you have a limb severed, the signals keep running down the nerves so I still g...
RICK SAVAGE A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes...
ROBERT PENN WARREN I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn'...
NICK HORNBY I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
GILDA RADNER I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
GILDA RADNER My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
IRIS APFEL I had a lady who sent me a letter, ... She went on to describe how she and her husband [had sex] to ...
CLAY AIKEN My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas i...
KATHARINE MCPHEE In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise...
ROBERT BROWNING I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
GILDA RADNER It?s a self-study of the mind, of what?s going on in your head by sitting and watching and being the...
LAURIE SABOURIN True Love is ... dusting and polishing even though your allergic to chemicals and your finger's will...
FEMALE IMAGINATION Maybe they've just got the itch when it comes to Tigers pitching. I can't figure it out. I'm waiting...
BRANDON INGE As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas,...
HERMAN MELVILLE Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.
KRIS CARR Life is in Fate's hands now. You made your choice to stay... it's too late to change that, so stop a...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficu...
RAYVON L. BROWNE The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl...
ANTHONY BURGESS I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. LAWRENCE I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems thems...
CARL SANDBURG I guess the bottom line of the tapes is -- I don't know whether I'm typical -- they make me itch. Th...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes po...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we, as a sp...
RON HOWARD Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its ...
MORDECAI RICHLER There are, in fact,
a cognitive itch
and a divination using the human form
while bein...
MARIETA MAGLAS- ESCHATOLOGICAL REGRESSION My friend, even though, calls charges, network availability and a customer service of your mobile op...
DR HITESH C SHETH Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskil...
MARK DAVIS If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly h...
OSCAR WILDE Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minu...
ANDREA MCLEAN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if Divinity had catc...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Who’s there?”
“The scratcher of your itch,” he said.
She opened the door a crack a...
JILL SHALVIS I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what...
J.M. COETZEE My fingers began to itch. I wanted to hang this exhibit. I wanted no interruptions. I wanted to see ...
ANN JAROSKI When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens ...
C. K. WILLIAMS In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robe...
DAVID MILCH There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you depriv...
CHARLES BAXTER If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having en...
JEF MALLETT I got the itch again. The winter before last, I came home, and it dumped the whole time. I skied epi...
BRETT BUCKLES Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it m...
QUENTIN R. BUFOGLE I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetr...
CAROL ANN DUFFY It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write...
EZRA POUND It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. MILNE I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze
D.H. LAWRENCE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards t...
DIANE WAKOSKI For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of ...
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WILLIAM PENN If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to...
WILLIAM PENN Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unles...
WILLIAM PENN A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
WILLIAM PENN Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen
WILLIAM PENN Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live w...
WILLIAM PENN Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman w...
WILLIAM PENN A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him
WILLIAM PENN When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.&...
PENN JILLETTE Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
PENN JILLETTE I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosp...
PENN JILLETTE I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
WILLIAM PENN