Just as little does one write poetry in order to demonstrate something.

They recalled the good old days when Overbrook used to write poetry.

He thought deeply about life and liked to paint and write poetry.

Indeed, I did not know that you could write poetry at all.

He sang pleasantly, drew confidently, could write poetry, and acted remarkably well.

And what a lot of them write poetry, and such poetry too!

And he does nothing but stay in pensions and write poetry.

To write poetry after Auschwitz, as Adorno famously said, is barbaric.

Furthermore, I cannot dance or write poetry or entertain a company at dinner.

He finds it very difficult to write poetry in the 1920s.

Young people write poetry and get sentimental: so do old people.

Here he neglected his studies to write poetry and journalistic articles.

I am not a sentimentalist-ifI were I should attempt to write poetry.

Then he had a friend, and began to write poetry, and be proud.

For instance, some of you perhaps think you can write poetry.

She could not write poetry like Susan, or paint like Lydia.