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

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

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"I like poems that are complex."

Peter Davison, British Actor

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

Billy Sherwood, American Musician

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"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

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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 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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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

John Ashbery, American Poet

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"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

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"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

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"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."

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"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality."

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"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."

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"The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions."

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"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."

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"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."

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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."

"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."

"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."

"I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on."

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"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."

"I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality."

"Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments."

"The future is always beginning now."

"Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented."

"Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure."

"Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler."

"The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions."

"Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb."

"And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life."