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

Poems, Poets, 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 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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"The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered."

Peter Davison, British Actor

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"I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that."

Peter Davison, British Actor

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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

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"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 have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."

Grazia Deledda, Italian Writer

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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."

David Antin, American Poet

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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."

Brian Ferneyhough, British Composer

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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."

Marilyn Hacker, American Poet

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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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"Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive."

Life

"I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more."

Aesthetics

"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."

Artistry

"I could scream abuse at him all day long; he wouldn't mind at all. It's me he wants, my look, my outside; not my emotions or my mind or my soul or even my body. Not anything human."

Alienation

"It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me."

Despair

"When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different."

Isolation

"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."

Duty

"Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur."

Nature

"I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment."

Morality

"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."

Life