"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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"Many of my poems are not sexual."

Thom Gunn, British Poet

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"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

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

Mark Strand, 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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"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

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

John Ashbery, American Poet

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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."

John C. Hawkes, American Novelist

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"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."

Horace, Roman Poet

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

Duty

"Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you."

Social

"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

"Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore."

Alienation

"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

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

Life

"The world began in hazard and will end in it."

Life

"She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls."

Desire

"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

"So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence."

Cruelty