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We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

- Thom Gunn

Published on: January 20, 2025 08:17 AM

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

- Dylan Thomas

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Published on: January 14, 2025 02:22 AM

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Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

- Sharon Olds

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Published on: January 2, 2025 10:03 PM

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I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

- Fay Wray

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Published on: December 28, 2024 09:39 AM

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Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.

- Stephen Greenblatt

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Published on: December 19, 2024 07:19 AM

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I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

- Peter Porter

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Published on: December 15, 2024 03:48 PM

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Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

- Thom Gunn

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Published on: December 12, 2024 09:34 AM

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Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

- James Broughton

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Published on: December 8, 2024 07:29 PM

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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

- Edvard Munch

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Published on: November 29, 2024 01:10 AM

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

- Anne Stevenson

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Published on: November 28, 2024 01:05 PM

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I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

- David Antin

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Published on: November 27, 2024 03:10 PM

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I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.

- Anne Stevenson

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Published on: November 25, 2024 06:31 PM

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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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Published on: November 21, 2024 06:51 AM

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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

- Carl Sandburg

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Published on: November 20, 2024 05:00 AM

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The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

- David Antin

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Published on: November 18, 2024 12:17 AM

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