experience

Do you think that you have to have experienced the things that you write about, or not?

No, not necerssarily [sorry can't spell] I think if You feel passionate about something enough, You can write from an outsiders point of view.. I'd like to think that my poems about things I have not experienced are as emotional and passionate as those that I have been through.. I can still feel sadness, happiness, sympathetic for other's experiences.. well I like to think so anyway, and have not been told any different yet :]

Nah`. Yu don`t gotta have experience. I didn`t have NO experience when I started out && I haven`t gotten n/e bad feedbacks or anything . S`long as yu love what yu be doin`, yu don`t need experience, hun`. S`all bout the passion to write.

I started writing with no experience and no encouragement.I was stumbling in the dark.Later I studied the various forms and such, but I believe my lack of rules and structure and the freedom to find my own way are what gained me popularity and mass publication in the long run(though it took years of development).Experience is something you gain along the way.Always listen to others, that is knowledge, but whether to accept their opinions or not is your own wisdom.Emily Dickinson basically wrote all her poetry without ever leaving her house.Experience can be gained in many ways.Reading, exploring, fantasizing, research, insight from others, etc.

Gary J

I think if had great imagination combined with a great vocab you can create a poem.
But I always write at my best when theres a certain feeling that needs to be jotted out.
most of my poems are from my experiences..

I think a lot of writers not only write about what they know and understand, but about what they don't understand, in hopes of understanding it more. Make sense?

Most of my poems come from my past experiences but it also helps to have a good imagination

No, but you do have to try an earnestly express whatever it is that you're writing about, meaning writing to explicitly express that things the resound clearly and ring most accurately (truthfully) in, of, and about that of which you are writing, that means bringing yourself to an understanding of that -- often through research, and if you can explicitly, earnestly, and accurately express that of which and about which you are writing, you need not had to have experienced it!!!

Sometimes like my poem Our Eyes and alot of my love poems are just off what i see and what i hear and what i imagine. Sometimes though its easier to write from what i know but sometimes its not easy.

I do not think you have to experience the things you write about. But it does help sometimes. I for one sometimes write about things that have never happened to me.

i haven't experienced anything that i've written, and i usually get good feedback, so i would say for some people, not necessarily. i have a poem about war with good feedback, and neither i nor my family have had any connection with war. so no. =)

Well, I think that take for example music, influences people to write. It, also set's the mood for writing. Experience is frequent enough. It does produce a better poem though.

No . I don`t think yu have to experience the things . I think now, maybe a good half of my poems aren`t about things I`ve experienced . I just put myself in others' shoes and stuff . Experiencing something and turnging it into a poem might give it more emotion and stuff though . Yah` feel me ?
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No, I don't think so.
I always write sad poems but not one of them is something I have experienced personally. I think you can also write about things without experiencing them, it’s quite easy actually. As long as people can find themselves in it. (:

I doesn't matter because writing comes from the heart. You can write about anything without necissarly going through it.

I think if you have experienced the things you write about it helps a little. But in the ed I don't think that it matters a lot.

I mean, it helps. cuz then you could put more into it. if you've actually experienced it. you know?

No, I mean it makes it easier but you can write about whatever you want. You just have to feel passionate about it.

Experiencing the things you write about, helps a lot and it also helps free a lot of things trapped in you, like your past

Experience helps but does not always give you thoughts.

No smoetimes its better to write about the unknown then you can guess thing from your own ideas. lol if you get what i mean lol xxxx alex xxx

I don't think you need experience, some of my poems that people think are my better ones, are not based off of experience

Not always although i think it does help to cuase then you have the background and the writting is more personal

No i dont think you do...i write about wut i am thinkin so if i am thinkin bout it then i write about it even if i haven't exprienced it my self

No, not at all. Some people can write about things that have happened to loved ones better then they can about things that have happened to themselves.

Would it be easier to write about things you've experienced? I can't help but to think so. I say this because surely, if you were writing about love, it would be easier to describe the love you felt, then to have just heard about it from someone else who has felt it. I also think that you would be able to put more emotion into your writing, and in my opinion, poetry is all about emotion.

I have never cut my heart out, nore have I ever shot a man, or been shot myself. But yet I can express it because I can dream. I can feel, I am empathetic to those who have experienced such a thing. It is possible.

Not at all necessary to experince but its always easy to write wat we had expericed ..

You don't necessarily have to have experienced something in order to write it. I have written countless poems about things that have never happened to me. To be a poet, you need imagination. You can imagine how someone feels when something happens to them... without having it happen to you. Sure, many write of subjects that they have experienced... but for myself, it is not always the case.

Not all the time no, your poems could be about thing you have only seen in dreams or just your imagination. alot of my poems are just like that. you dont really have to experince it to write about it.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO EXPERENCE ANYTHING...JUST WRITE

^^ i agree

No, not at all. th.e best poems are the one you experienced i guess

^ agree

Most of mine are from experience but if you set your mind to it you can imagine things and then write a poem x i usually write poems that for my friends that they can give to there partners x so i just put myself in there shoes then it roles off the tongue x

No, i think anyone could write about something if they have the talent for poetry xx

No not all the time, sometimes experience is better, because you kno the exact emotions in which you can feel about that certain subject. but i have written things about, and i kno other poets have written things about they have never been through. its all a matter of imagination.

No not really. Sometimes i believe it would be better/easier though. Having experience lets you expand further and fill it more with emotion

Most of the things I write, I do have experience with. Like my religous poems, or most of my love poems. But sometimes I just write about crazy stuff even dreams. :)) But you don`t have to write about stuff you have experienced just use you imagination

Kevin Kerbz has sexy long hair. What is the question? Oh...yes. Most of it, if not all.

Not at all.. you just need to know how to imagine the emotion and situation that you'd like to write about..
Just like in my poem "Memories"