"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."

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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."

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"I like poems that are complex."

Peter Davison, British Actor

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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, Norwegian Artist

Poems, Prose, Sense, Spiritual

"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

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"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

Poems, Suicide, Writing

"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Poems, Poets, Writing

"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."

Peter Davison, British Actor

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"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

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"Many of my poems are not sexual."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

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"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem."

Poetry, Hope, Healing, Potential

"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."

Architecture, Moments, Poems

"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."

Community, Paris

"I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way."

Work,

"Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated."

Literature, States, Study, Theory

"Clearly, once the student is no longer a student the possibilities of relationship are enlarged."

Education, Possibilities

"I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it."

Help,

"I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts."

Writing, Draft, First, Teaching

"The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition."

Language, Vocabulary

"Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other."

Poetry, Time, Language, Living