John Marsden

This isn't poetry but I just really like it. The perfect way to describe writing.

"Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk waiting for inspiration to strike. Writing is a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different to each other.
However, I write about these alternative worlds because it helps to preserve them. I'm their historian, their geographer, their sociologist, their storyteller. I write them into being. I have to say I don't care whether this is a good thing to do or not; tthis is just the way I am and the way I live my life."

Yeah i love that. I also love this line which he uses in "The Dead Of The Night" :
"My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper."