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

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

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

Laurence Housman, English Playwright

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"Many of my poems are not sexual."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

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"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

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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

Poems, Trying, Want

"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

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

Peter Davison, British Actor

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"Exchange is creation."

Creation

"I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice."

Sacrifice

"I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride."

Woman

"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."

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"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art."

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"In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty."

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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."

"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."

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

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"Exchange is creation."

"I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice."

"I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride."

"If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger."

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

"Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry."

"The journey is my home."

"A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art."

"In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty."