"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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"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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"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."

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

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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."

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Thought

"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."

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"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened."

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"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."

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"A chronicle is very different from history proper."

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"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."

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"I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us."

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"Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree."

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"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."

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