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title: "12 Poems People Quotes by 10 authors"
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> [Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/poems-are-other-people-s-snapshots-in-which-we-see-our-own-lives/)

[Charles Simic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-simic/)

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> [“Who will read these poems when the people are gone?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominic-owen-mallary/who-will-read-these-poems-when-the-people-are-gone/)

[Dominic Owen Mallary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominic-owen-mallary/)

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> [For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/for-poems-are-not-as-people-think-simply-emotions-one-has-emotions/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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> [If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-davison/if-i-were-brave-enough-to-say-so-i-d-like-to-think-that-i-had-written/)

[Peter Davison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-davison/)

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> [At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-morrison/at-times-of-crisis-or-distress-it-s-poems-that-people-turn-to-poetry/)

[Blake Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-morrison/)

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> [“Writing the poems, I came to think that regarding is a form of love, but the regarding is not necessarily accurate. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-katz/writing-the-poems-i-came-to-think-that-regarding-is-a-form-of-love/)

[Joy Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joy-katz/)

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> [When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tracy-k-smith/when-i-first-became-brave-enough-to-tell-people-that-i-wrote-poems-so/)

[Tracy K. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tracy-k-smith/)

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> [If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-motion/if-i-were-to-die-thinking-that-i-d-written-three-poems-that-people/)

[Andrew Motion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-motion/)

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> [“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/people-were-made-of-nothing-so-much-as-dust-and-i-couldn-t-see-that/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, ‘Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’ ‘No, what?’ I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/now-lying-on-my-back-in-bed-i-imagined-buddy-saying-do-you-know-what/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/do-you-know-what-a-poem-is-esther-no-what-i-would-say-a-piece-of-dust/)

[Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/)

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> [“Have you ever wondered What happens to all the poems people write? The poems they never let anyone else read? Perhaps they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shaun-tan/have-you-ever-wondered-what-happens-to-all-the-poems-people-write-the/)

[Shaun Tan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shaun-tan/)

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                        "text": "“Have you ever wondered What happens to all the poems people write? The poems they never let anyone else read? Perhaps they are Too private and personal Perhaps they are just not good enough. Perhaps the prospect of such a heartfelt expression being seen as clumsy shallow silly pretentious saccharine unoriginal sentimental trite boring overwrought obscure stupid pointless or simply embarrassing is enough to give any aspiring poet good reason to hide their work from public view. forever. Naturally many poems are IMMEDIATELY DESTROYED. Burnt shredded flushed away Occasionally they are folded Into little squares And wedged under the corner of An unstable piece of furniture (So actually quite useful) Others are hidden behind a loose brick or drainpipe or sealed into the back of an old alarm clock or put between the pages of AN OBSCURE BOOK that is unlikely to ever be opened. someone might find them one day, BUT PROBABLY NOT The truth is that unread poetry Will almost always be just that. DOOMED to join a vast invisible river of waste that flows out of suburbia. well Almost always. On rare occasions, Some especially insistent pieces of writing will escape into a backyard or a laneway be blown along a roadside embankment and finally come to rest in a shopping center parking lot as so many things do It is here that something quite Remarkable takes place two or more pieces of poetry drift toward each other through a strange force of attraction unknown to science and ever so slowly cling together to form a tiny, shapeless ball. Left undisturbed, this ball gradually becomes larger and rounder as other free verses confessions secrets stray musings wishes and unsent love letters attach themselves one by one. Such a ball creeps through the streets Like a tumbleweed for months even years If it comes out only at night it has a good Chance of surviving traffic and children and through a slow rolling motion AVOIDS SNAILS (its number one predator) At a certain size, it instinctively shelters from bad weather, unnoticed but otherwise roams the streets searching for scraps of forgotten thought and feeling. Given time and luck the poetry ball becomes large HUGE ENORMOUS: A vast accumulation of papery bits That ultimately takes to the air, levitating by The sheer force of so much unspoken emotion. It floats gently above suburban rooftops when everybody is asleep inspiring lonely dogs to bark in the middle of the night. Sadly a big ball of paper no matter how large and buoyant, is still a fragile thing. Sooner or LATER it will be surprised by a sudden gust of wind Beaten by driving rain and REDUCED in a matter of minutes to a billion soggy shreds. One morning everyone will wake up to find a pulpy mess covering front lawns clogging up gutters and plastering car windscreens. Traffic will be delayed children delighted adults baffled unable to figure out where it all came from Stranger still Will be the Discovery that Every lump of Wet paper Contains various faded words pressed into accidental verse. Barely visible but undeniably present To each reader they will whisper something different something joyful something sad truthful absurd hilarious profound and perfect No one will be able to explain the Strange feeling of weightlessness or the private smile that remains Long after the street sweepers have come and gone.”",
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