Why do you write poetry?

[nighthawk]

Why do you write poetry? How does it come to you?



For myself,  I write most when I am bound. By life, by circumstances, by things I can't change, when I am tied up so tightly..... then the word songs arise to fly away from me. To let it out. The words that come will not let me rest until I have written themdown. I have no control over them until I do.
Is it the same for you?

[ConfusedMind]

almost. but not thoroughly. i feel like writing and i write. in fact, when it is poetry that you are writing, it should come spontaneously from your inner side.

[FairyQueen]

poetry is a spontaneous overflow of emotions. If you are a fen of poetry you must know this famous line of Coleridge.

[ConfusedMind]

Wordsworth also said almost the very same words. here's what he wrote in his Lyrical Ballads - "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."

[Subho]

because we feel like poeting.