Poet Quotes and aphorisms about lines Maya Angelou A. R. Ammons Natasha Trethewey ,, When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The... W. S. Merwin James Stephens ,, A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they end... Anthony Hecht Howard Nemerov Franz Wright Billy Collins Gil Scott-Heron