"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."

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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."

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John Fowles, English Novelist

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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, Swiss Writer

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Horace, Roman Poet

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Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish Poet

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

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

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"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."

Mary Oliver, American Poet

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Thom Gunn, British Poet

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James Broughton, American Director

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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."

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

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

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

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."

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

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

"Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together."

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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

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"When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately."

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"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."

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