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| Lascelles Abercrombie |
With several different kinds of...
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| M. H. Abrams |
If you read quickly to get...
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| Diane Ackerman |
A poem records emotions and...
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| Archie R. Ammons |
A poem generated by its own...
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| Archie R. Ammons |
Each poem in becoming generates...
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| Archie R. Ammons |
If a poem is each time...
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| Archie R. Ammons |
I can't tell you where a...
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| Laurie Anderson |
My secret dream is to write...
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| John Ashbery |
The poem is sad because it...
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| Jean M. Auel |
It took some time to gather...
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| John Barton |
I consider a poem to be...
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| John Barton |
The point of an experiment is...
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| John Barton |
The reader's challenge is to...
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| John Barton |
An experienced reader uses the...
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| John Barton |
No poem is easily grasped; so...
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| John Barton |
The experiment of the poem is...
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| John Barton |
Writing can sometimes be exploitative...
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| John Barton |
I would not say I chose...
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| Beck |
I did that Grammys thing - I...
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| Richard Bentley |
It is a pretty poem, Mr...
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| Jose Bergamin |
The novel is born of...
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| Theodore Bikel |
In my world, history comes...
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| Harold Bloom |
No poem, not even Shakespeare...
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| Harold Bloom |
The second, and I think this...
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| Harold Bloom |
What we call a poem is...
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| James Broughton |
For me a poem has to...
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| Anatole Broyard |
Rome was a poem pressed into...
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| Basil Bunting |
Whether you listen to a piece...
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| David Carradine |
If you cannot be a poet...
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| Paul Celan |
Only truthful hands write true...
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| William Kingdon Clifford |
There is no scientific discoverer...
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| Julian Cope |
I think you can have the...
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| Richard Corliss |
Mausoleum air and anguished pauses...
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| Hart Crane |
The fact that The Bridge...
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| Hart Crane |
The form of my poem rises...
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| Robert Creeley |
Again like Williams, with the...
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| Peter Davison |
The reason one writes poems is...
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| Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau |
The composition of a single...
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| Rita Dove |
For many years, I thought a...
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| Rita Dove |
I have a high guilt quotient...
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| Rita Dove |
I keep the drafts of each...
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| Rita Dove |
In working on a poem,I...
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| John Drinkwater |
Poe's saying that a long poem...
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| Carol Ann Duffy |
Like the sand and the oyster...
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| Douglas Dunn |
Reading a poem aloud to an...
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| Douglas Dunn |
A poem can have an impact...
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| Douglas Dunn |
A poet's cultural baggage and...
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| Marguerite Duras |
No other human being, no woman...
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| Bob Dylan |
A poem is a naked person...
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| Hermann Ebbinghaus |
A poem is learned by heart...
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| Paul Engle |
Verse is not written, it is...
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| Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
The paintings may communicate even...
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| Brian Ferneyhough |
It is still true that it...
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| Leslie Fiedler |
Critics? How do they happen? I...
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| Dorothy Fields |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write...
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| Robert Fitzgerald |
The heart of the matter seems...
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| E. M. Forster |
A poem is true if it...
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| Michael Franti |
Every single soul is a poem...
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| Robert Frost |
A poem begins in delight and...
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| Robert Frost |
I have never started a poem...
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| Robert Frost |
A poem begins as a lump...
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| Robert Frost |
The figure a poem makes. It...
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| Robert Frost |
A poem begins as a lump...
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| Northrop Frye |
Just as a new scientific...
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| William Gibson |
The box was a universe, a...
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| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
Every day we should hear at...
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| Dexter Gordon |
When you know the lyrics to...
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| Franz Grillparzer |
To declaim freedom verses seems...
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| Alfred Whitney Griswold |
The divine spark leaps from...
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| Thom Gunn |
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a...
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| Thom Gunn |
I deliberately wrote a poem in...
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| Thom Gunn |
I try not to observe myself...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
I have experienced healing through...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
Translation makes me look at...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
Perhaps first and foremost is...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
Of the individual poems, some...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
I don't know whether a poem...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
The pleasure that I take in...
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| Conrad Hall |
Manipulating shadows and tonality is...
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| Mata Hari |
The dance is a poem of...
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| Thomas Harrison |
Still the question remains of...
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| Thomas Harrison |
A poem conveys not a message...
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| Thomas Harrison |
With the question of the...
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| Jim Harrison |
I got $30 from Nation magazine...
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| Horace |
A picture is a poem without...
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| Horace |
Every old poem is sacred.
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| Robert Indiana |
I think of my peace paintings...
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| Tahar Ben Jelloun |
I read a poem every night...
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| Eyvind Johnson |
A writer's work often reflects...
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| Joyce Kilmer |
I think that I shall never...
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| Kenneth Koch |
When you finish a poem, it...
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| James Laughlin |
Of course a poem is a...
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| James Laughlin |
With me it's the whole thing...
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| Philip Levine |
My sense of a poem - my...
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| Philip Levine |
If that voice that you created...
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| Philip Levine |
But most commonly, it's one...
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| Philip Levine |
Back then, I couldn't have...
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| C. Day Lewis |
No good poem, however confessional...
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| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Arranging a bowl of flowers in...
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| Cesare Lombroso |
Klopstock was questioned regarding the...
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Like a French poem is life...
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| Thomas Lynch |
Usually a poem takes shape...
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| Thomas B. Macaulay |
We hold that the most...
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| Stephane Mallarme |
You don't make a poem with...
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| Groucho Marx |
My favourite poem is the one...
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| Jules Massenet |
If I were to agree to...
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| James Merrill |
Knowing some Greek helped defuse...
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| Dan Miller |
In one line of his poem...
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| Spike Milligan |
I thought I'd begin by reading...
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| Joni Mitchell |
At the point where I'm trying...
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| Marianne Moore |
In a poem the excitement has...
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| Robert Morgan |
In the late 60s and early...
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| Robert Morgan |
I love to compare different...
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| Robert Morgan |
A poem in form still has...
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| Robert Morgan |
If a poem is not memorable...
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| Nicholas Mosley |
To say a poem is absolute...
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| Paul Muldoon |
One will never again look at...
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| Paul Muldoon |
What I try to do is...
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| George Murray |
I am still interested in the...
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| George Murray |
I don't think there's anything...
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| Howard Nemerov |
I sometimes talk about the...
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| Howard Nemerov |
I've thought of the last line...
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| Howard Nemerov |
Mostly the thought and the...
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| Howard Nemerov |
Robert Frost had always said...
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| Howard Nemerov |
I've never read a political...
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| Pablo Neruda |
Peace goes into the making of...
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| Joanna Newsom |
Lyrics are very different. There...
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| Paul Nurse |
Scientific understanding is often beautiful...
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| Sharon Olds |
If I wrote in a sonnet...
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| Sharon Olds |
This creature of the poem may...
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| Sharon Olds |
I think that there are fiction...
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| Charles Olson |
The poem, for me, is simply...
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| Michael Ondaatje |
I see the poem or the...
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| Leo Ornstein |
No, I think that a person...
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| Wilfred Owen |
A Poem does not grow by...
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| Wilfred Owen |
I find purer philosophy in a...
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| Octavio Paz |
To read a poem is to...
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| Adrienne Rich |
The moment of change is the...
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| Adrienne Rich |
A revolutionary poem will not...
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| Laura Riding |
To a poet the mere making...
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| Richard Rosen |
The poem is the point at...
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| George Saintsbury |
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of...
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| Carl Sandburg |
Ordering a man to write a...
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| Friedrich Von Schlegel |
A so-called happy marriage...
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| Friedrich Von Schlegel |
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins...
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| Friedrich Von Schlegel |
Strictly speaking, the idea of...
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| James Schuyler |
However, if a poem can be...
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| James Schuyler |
I do not usually revise much...
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| James Schuyler |
In the past I have declined...
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| James Schuyler |
It seems to me that readers...
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| Anne Sexton |
The beautiful feeling after writing...
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
History is a cyclic poem...
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| Charles Simic |
Wanted: a needle swift enough...
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| Carly Simon |
Sometimes my boyfriend would write...
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| Stephen Spender |
When you read and understand a...
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| George Steiner |
The most important tribute any...
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| Wallace Stevens |
Style is not something applied...
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| Wallace Stevens |
A poem need not have a...
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| Anne Stevenson |
A poem might be defined as...
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| Mark Strand |
Usually a life turned into a...
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| Mark Strand |
Pain is filtered in a poem...
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| Mark Strand |
It hardly seems worthwhile to...
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| Mark Strand |
From the reader's view, a poem...
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| Mark Strand |
And at least in poetry you...
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| John Millington Synge |
A translation is no translation...
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| Allen Tate |
What is the poem, after it...
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| Allen Tate |
We know the particular poem...
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| Allen Tate |
The only real evidence that...
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| Allen Tate |
In a manner of speaking, the...
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| Allen Tate |
How does one happen to write...
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| Allen Tate |
A poem may be an instance...
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| Julie Taymor |
We took Beowulf, the epic poem...
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| Henry David Thoreau |
Our moments of inspiration are...
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| John Updike |
There's a crystallization that goes...
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| Paul Valery |
A poem is never finished, only...
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| Gore Vidal |
There is something about a...
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| Diane Wakoski |
I think I'm a very good...
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| Derek Walcott |
If you know what you are...
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| Robert Penn Warren |
The poem is a little myth...
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| Robert Penn Warren |
For what is a poem but...
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| Booker T. Washington |
No race can prosper till it...
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| Booker T. Washington |
No race can prosper till it...
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| Walt Whitman |
And your very flesh shall be...
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| Walt Whitman |
The United States themselves are...
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| Steven Wright |
I was reading the dictionary...
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| Marguerite Young |
The first poem I ever wrote...
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