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