You are someone and you have a right to your life.

- Richard Hugo

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

- Richard Hugo

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of troub…

- Richard Hugo

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

- Richard Hugo

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

- Richard Hugo

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

- Richard Hugo

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

- Richard Hugo

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

- Richard Hugo

Maximum sentence length: seventeen words. Minimum:one No semicolons. Semicolons indicate relationships that only idiots need defined by punctuation. …

- Richard Hugo