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title: "20 Think Poems Quotes by 18 authors"
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> [I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-young/i-think-poems-return-us-to-that-place-of-mud-and-dirt-and-earth-sun/)

[Kevin Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-young/)

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> [I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aishwarya-r-dhanush/i-write-short-phrases-and-used-to-think-they-were-poems/)

[Aishwarya R. Dhanush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aishwarya-r-dhanush/)

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> [I do think that all of us think in poems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-shihab-nye/i-do-think-that-all-of-us-think-in-poems/)

[Naomi Shihab Nye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-shihab-nye/)

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> [The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rupi-kaur/the-way-a-small-child-might-dream-of-visiting-disneyland-i-dreamed-of/)

[Rupi Kaur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rupi-kaur/)

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> [I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-harrison/i-think-poems-belong-as-much-in-the-news-pages-as-the-literary-pages/)

[Tony Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-harrison/)

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> [I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-think-my-poems-immediately-come-out-of-the-sensuous-and-emotional-2/)

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

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> [I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monica-youn/i-tell-my-students-to-think-of-poems-as-language-plus-language-with/)

[Monica Youn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/monica-youn/)

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> [I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maya-angelou/i-think-all-poems-are-commissioned-they-just-come-to-me-without/)

[Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maya-angelou/)

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> [Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-arthur/maybe-because-i-can-t-even-put-together-an-ikea-desk-i-ve-never-been/)

[James Arthur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-arthur/)

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> [“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-r-delany/i-say-i-think-my-poems-now-are-finer-than-anything-i-ve-ever-done-i/)

[Samuel R. Delany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-r-delany/)

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> [I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthea-harvey/i-don-t-think-all-poems-need-to-be-written-in-conversational-language/)

[Matthea Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthea-harvey/)

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> [In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-penn-warren/in-america-they-have-to-know-just-what-you-are-novelist-poet/)

[Robert Penn Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-penn-warren/)

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> [As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/as-a-university-student-i-tried-hard-to-write-poems-in-korean-it-was/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

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> [I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yusef-komunyakaa/i-think-of-my-poems-as-personal-and-public-at-the-same-time-you-could/)

[Yusef Komunyakaa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yusef-komunyakaa/)

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> [As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/as-a-sick-kid-i-always-looked-out-the-window-the-objects-of-my/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

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> [If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-dunn/if-the-motive-of-writing-is-for-some-people-a-kind-of-exercise-in/)

[Stephen Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-dunn/)

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> [“I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-shihab-nye/i-do-think-that-all-of-us-think-in-poems-i-think-of-a-poem-as-being/)

[Naomi Shihab Nye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-shihab-nye/)

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> [“It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-beatty/it-s-corny-but-i-think-poems-are-echoes-of-the-voices-in-your-head/)

[Paul Beatty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-beatty/)

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> [Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-zapruder/keats-s-odes-are-among-my-favorite-poems-ever-as-are-neruda-s-so-yes/)

[Matthew Zapruder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-zapruder/)

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> [“Robert Frost at Eighty" I think there are poems greater and stranger than any I have known. I would like to find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-boyle/robert-frost-at-eighty-i-think-there-are-poems-greater-and-stranger/)

[Peter Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-boyle/)

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                        "text": "“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined mind, with critical faculties shocked and fragmented on grief; because if they are great ... they cost too much!”",
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                        "text": "If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as I think all of these poems are. It seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences right for yourself and make discoveries as you go along and find for them some formal glue - they will be poems for others.",
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                        "text": "“I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You know how they talk about breaking news all the time, that -- if too much breaking news, trying to absorb all the breaking news, you start feeling really broken. And you need something that takes you to a place that's a little more timeless, that kind of gives you a place to stand to look out at all these things. Otherwise, you just feel assaulted by all of the tragedy in the world.”",
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                        "text": "“It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father, your ancestors taking to you and through you. Some of it is primal, some of it is hallucinatory bullshit. That madness those boys rapping ain't nothing but urban folklore. They retelling stories passed down from chicken coop to apartment stoop to Ford coupe. Hear that rhyme, boy. Shit, I could get down and rap if I had to. MC Big Mama Osteoporosis in the house.”",
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                        "text": "Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really just see those titles as ways of more or less orienting the poem. I've never thought about this until now, but I guess you could say that one effect of all the titles, their pervasiveness in the book, might be to once again, as so many other things do, put into question the meaning of the word \"for,\" which I suppose is one of the great human questions: what is all this for? Why, and for whom, are we doing whatever we are doing?",
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                        "text": "“Robert Frost at Eighty\" I think there are poems greater and stranger than any I have known. I would like to find them. They are not on the greying paper of old books or chanted on obscure lips. They are not in the language of mermaids or the sharp-tongued adjectives of vanishing. They run like torn threads along paving stones. They are cracked as the skull of an old man. They stir in the mirror at fifty, at eighty. My ear keeps trying to hear them but the seafront is cold. The tide moves in. They migrate like crows at a cricket ground. They knock at the door when I am out. I have done with craft. How can I front ghosts with cleverness, the slick glide of paradox and rhyme that transforms prejudice to brittle gems of seeming wisdom? Though I bury all I own or hold close though my skin outlives the trees though the lines fall shattering the stone I cannot catch them. They have the lilting accent of a house I saw but never entered. They are the sounds a child hears – the water, the afternoon, the sky. I watch them now trickling through the open mirror. Sometimes, but almost never we touch what we desire.”",
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