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'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.


Al Purdy
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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.


Robert Penn Warren
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.


Rainer Maria Rilke
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.


John Fowles
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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.


Brian Ferneyhough
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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.


Jim Harrison
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I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.


Mary Oliver
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To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
Giles Foden
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Jack Prelutsky
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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
Nikki Giovanni
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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
Mark Strand
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Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.
Donald Hall
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There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
Caroline Kennedy
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I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.
Eileen Myles
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Harold Bloom
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Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
Peter Bichsel
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If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.
Peter Davison
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It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
Howard Nemerov
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
Mark Strand
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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
Dylan Thomas
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A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.
George Oppen
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
Peter Davison
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'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.
CeCe Peniston
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I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
Billy Collins
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Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.
Andrew Motion
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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
Billy Collins
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When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.
James Franco
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There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
Wendy Cope
In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play.
August Wilson
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
Floyd Skloot
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
Bayard Taylor
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Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
Ally Carter
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Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
Marilyn Hacker
I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
Billy Collins
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas.
Jeremy Denk
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It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
Jason Newsted
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I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
Seamus Heaney
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