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Horace

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

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

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Asa Don Brown

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

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"I like poems that are complex."

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Asa Don Brown

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

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Asa Don Brown

"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."

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Asa Don Brown

"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."

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Asa Don Brown

"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."

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Asa Don Brown

"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."

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Asa Don Brown

"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."

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Asa Don Brown

"I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me."

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Asa Don Brown

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

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