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

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

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Poems, Poets, Writing

"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

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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

Poems, Will

"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

Poems,

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

Laurence Housman, English Playwright

Poems, World

"Many of my poems are not sexual."

Thom Gunn, British 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

"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

Poems, Trying, Want

"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

Poems,

"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

James Broughton, American Director

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"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."

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"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

Body

"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."

Patience

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

Fool

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

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

"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."

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

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

"Many of my poems are not sexual."

"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."

"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."

"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."

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"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."

"Leave the rest to the gods."

"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."