"Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady."

Poems,

41

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady."

Exlpore more Poems quotes

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

James Broughton, American Director

Poems, Writing

"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."

Robert Fitzgerald, American Author

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

"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."

David Antin, American Poet

Poems,

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

Billy Sherwood, American Musician

Poems,

"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,

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poems, Woman

"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."

Anne Stevenson, American Poet

Poems, Weight, Word

"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

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

John Fowles, English Novelist

Poems, Poets, Words

Explore more quotes by Thom Gunn

"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."

Reading

"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."

Work

"I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse."

Sex

"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."

Fact

"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects."

Man

"I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader."

Writing

41

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Poems quotes

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

"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."

"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."

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

Explore more quotes by Thom Gunn

"I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic."

"While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us."

"I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse."

"When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets."

"I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects."

"Many of my poems are not sexual."

"We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading."

"My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand."

"I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way."

"I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader."