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Poems Quotes
"I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy."
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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."
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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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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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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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"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
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"Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems."
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"By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow."
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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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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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"The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue."
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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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"Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel."
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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."
10
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems."
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"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."
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"I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant."
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"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
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