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title: "10 Poems Published Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-kavanagh/macmillan-s-rejection-had-left-him-very-downcast-patrick-swift-was/)

[Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-kavanagh/)

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> [My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-dunmore/my-first-collection-of-poems-was-published-by-bloodaxe-books-which/)

[Helen Dunmore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-dunmore/)

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> [“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-salinger/they-re-just-people-that-write-poems-that-get-published-and/)

[J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-salinger/)

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> [I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/i-think-it-s-true-to-say-that-in-1973-i-could-read-every-book-of/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

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> [However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-dunmore/however-i-began-to-submit-poems-to-british-magazines-and-some-were/)

[Helen Dunmore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-dunmore/)

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> [“They're not. That's partly what's so awful. I mean they're not real poets. They're just people that write poems that get published…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-salinger/they-re-not-that-s-partly-what-s-so-awful-i-mean-they-re-not-real/)

[J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-salinger/)

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> [My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derek-walcott/my-first-book-of-poems-was-published-privately-in-1949-that-was-my/)

[Derek Walcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derek-walcott/)

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> [Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-padgett/maybe-lurking-in-my-unconscious-was-the-idea-that-when-someone-s/)

[Ron Padgett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-padgett/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/182/ron-padgett-31212_funeral_maybe-lurking-in-my-unconscious-was-the_1997028.jpg)

> [I had no idea, when I was writing early on, that my poems would be published or read by anyone, never mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-duhamel/i-had-no-idea-when-i-was-writing-early-on-that-my-poems-would-be/)

[Denise Duhamel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-duhamel/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cb/denise-duhamel-18337_ideas_i-had-no-idea-when-i-was-writing-early-o_3142602.jpg)

> [When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hass/when-emily-dickinson-s-poems-were-published-in-the-1890s-they-were-a/)

[Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hass/)

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