"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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"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

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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

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Ringo Starr, English Musician

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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

Mark Strand, American 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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Peter Davison, British Actor

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"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."

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"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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"However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole."

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"Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed."

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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."

"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 was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."

"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"I like poems that are complex."

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

"Exchange is creation."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole."

"Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed."

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