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

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

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"I like poems that are complex."

Peter Davison, British Actor

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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."

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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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"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."

Edvard Munch, Norwegian Artist

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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

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"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

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"Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

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"A total stranger, and one not of one's sex, is often the least prejudiced judge."

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"In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her."

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"Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?"

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"I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead."

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"Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth."

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"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."

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"People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green."

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