"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."

Poetry, Thinking

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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The crown of literature is poetry."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

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"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."

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"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."

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"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

Influence

"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."

Thought

"I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last."

Change

"I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate."

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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

"The crown of literature is poetry."

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."

"Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too."

"It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway."

"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."

"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."

"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."

"I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution."

"New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts."

"I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last."

"I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate."