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Robert Adamson There's one of my new poems...
Sherman Alexie If I wasn't writing poems I'd...
Archie R. Ammons Each poem in becoming generates...
Archie R. Ammons Besides the actual reading in...
David Antin The ancient Greek oral poets...
David Antin I was very committed to the...
David Antin I didn't think about whether I...
John Ashbery I like poems you can tack...
Paul Auster All I wanted to do was...
John Barton Most victims of my autobiographical...
John Barton I sometimes like to tinker...
John Barton Sometimes poetry is inspired by...
John Barton I would not say I chose...
John Barton To me many short poems read...
Peter Bichsel Why does one always ask a...
Harold Bloom Criticism starts - it has to...
Harold Bloom What we call a poem is...
Gwendolyn Brooks What I'm fighting for now in...
James Broughton Today the U.S. is farther from...
James Broughton My earliest poems sing of the...
James Broughton I consider my films to be...
Paul Celan Only truthful hands write true...
Gilbert K. Chesterton Once I planned to write a...
Peter Davison For instance, it's a little...
Peter Davison I like poems that are little...
Peter Davison I like poems that are complex...
Peter Davison Every so often I find some...
Peter Davison The reason one writes poems is...
Peter Davison If I were brave enough to...
Peter Davison I would like to be proud...
Grazia Deledda I have also written some poems...
Rita Dove My favorite poets may not be...
John Drinkwater It is commonly asserted and...
Carol Ann Duffy I still read Donne, particularly...
Helen Dunmore My first collection of poems...
Helen Dunmore I have learned so much from...
Helen Dunmore However, I began to submit...
Douglas Dunn I've always thought my poems...
Philip Dunne It's easy to understand why...
Richard Eberhart Poems in a way are spells...
Brian Ferneyhough By reason of weird translation...
Leslie Fiedler I admire Ginsberg as a poet...
Ian Hamilton Finlay As a friendly one. I would...
Robert Fitzgerald Of course the other and more...
Robert Fitzgerald There must of course be a...
John Fowles We all write poems; it is...
Gordon Getty I was in Paris at an...
Martin Gore I don't write poems and put...
Stephen Greenblatt Well it is certainly the case...
Thom Gunn Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a...
Thom Gunn I was reading the poems of...
Thom Gunn Many of my poems are not...
Thom Gunn We tend to put poems into...
Thom Gunn When I first started to write...
Marilyn Hacker I've been an inveterate reader...
Marilyn Hacker Of the individual poems, some...
Marilyn Hacker Everyone thinks they're going to...
Jim Harrison I got $30 from Nation magazine...
Gregory Harrison I learned to play guitar at...
John Hawkes I used to carry about with...
Horace No poems can please for long...
Laurence Housman My brother used to say that...
Laurence Housman On that other novels followed...
Tahar Ben Jelloun I am a guest of the...
June Jordan I wrote those poems for myself...
Jiddu Krishnamurti You must understand the whole...
Lactantius The poets, therefore, however much...
Philip Larkin I can't understand these chaps...
Irving Layton I am a genius who has...
Philip Levine There'll always be working people...
Thomas Lynch If I were assigned poems I...
Thomas Lynch Poems seem to have a life...
Norman MacCaig But you'd have a job to...
Harry Mathews Well, the great thing for me...
Roger McGough I'm terrified of switching the...
Roger McGough People can put their best...
Joan Miro I try to apply colors like...
Robert Morgan Southern poets are still writing...
Robert Morgan We have a lot of long...
Robert Morgan I seem to keep returning to...
Robert Morgan I love chapbooks. They're in...
Robert Morgan The best books of our times...
Robert Morgan The Black Mountain poet I like...
Edvard Munch The notes I have made are...
George Murray I was writing notes, but not...
Story Musgrave I've already written 300 space...
Howard Nemerov I liked the kid who wrote...
Howard Nemerov I've thought of the last line...
Howard Nemerov It may be said that poems...
Jason Newsted It all has to do with...
Jack Nicholson Early on, if I was alone...
Sharon Olds My poems - I don't even like...
Sharon Olds Many poets write books. They'll...
Sharon Olds Well, "The Wellspring" was written...
Mary Oliver Almost anything is too much. I...
Mary Oliver As a child, what captivated me...
Charles Olson You don't help people in your...
George Oppen A discrete series is a series...
Peter Porter I started off in England and...
Peter Porter In other words the pictures...
Jack Prelutsky There's not too much difference...
Jack Prelutsky I write the poems first, with...
Jack Prelutsky I invented animals and birds...
Jack Prelutsky After I'd produced about two...
Al Purdy A collected poems' is either a...
Salvatore Quasimodo My readers at that time were...
Gilda Radner I wanted a perfect ending. Now...
Wilhelm Reich The few bad poems which...
Rainer Maria Rilke Spring has returned. The Earth...
Henry Rollins The only difference between me...
Muriel Rukeyser In our period, they say there...
Muriel Rukeyser Our poems will have failed if...
Carl Sandburg I wrote poems in my corner...
Carl Sandburg We read Robert Browning's poetry...
Billy Sherwood I also write poems, so that...
Hu Shih On July 26, 1916, I announced...
Wole Soyinka My horizon on humanity is...
Ringo Starr I like Beethoven, especially the...
Anne Stevenson Each word bears its weight, so...
Anne Stevenson I play with language a great...
Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all...
Anne Stevenson My earlier poems were sadder...
Anne Stevenson Yes, I do often write poems...
Mark Strand The number of people writing...
Mark Strand I tend to like poems that...
Mark Strand And Robert Lowell, of course...
Amber Tamblyn A lot of young poets today...
Dylan Thomas These poems, with all their...
Dylan Thomas Don't be too harsh to these...
Dylan Thomas I went on all over the...
Diane Wakoski My poems are almost all...
Diane Wakoski I think I'm a very good...
Robert Penn Warren How do poems grow? They grow...
Robert Penn Warren I don't expect you'll hear me...
James Welch The title of the poems was...
James Welch My poems were just kind of...
Walt Whitman I say that democracy can never...
Virginia Woolf I would venture to guess that...
Virginia Woolf Indeed, I would venture to...
Fay Wray I don't know why Sinclair...



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