"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

Poems,

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

Exlpore more Poems quotes

"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poems, Woman

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

Poems, Understanding, Victims

"I like poems that are complex."

Peter Davison, British Actor

Poems,

"Many of my poems are not sexual."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

Poems,

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."

James Welch, American Author

Poems,

"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

Poems,

"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."

Howard Nemerov, American Poet

Poems,

"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."

David Antin, American Poet

Poems, Thinking, Writing

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

John Ashbery, American Poet

Poems,

"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

Poems, Will, Years

Explore more quotes by Peter Bichsel

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

Heart

"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."

Ambition

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."

Literature

"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."

People

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

Nation

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

Poems

35

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Poems quotes

"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

"I like poems that are complex."

"Many of my poems are not sexual."

"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."

"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

"I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try."

"I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand."

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

Explore more quotes by Peter Bichsel

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."

"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."

"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."

"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."

"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."