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

"I like poems that are complex."

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

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

"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."

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

"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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"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."

"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."

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