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The future is always beginning now.
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And what does it matter when light enters the room where a child sleeps and the waking mother, opening her eyes, wishes…
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A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what…
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits…
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The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
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Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real…
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,…
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I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
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The burial of feelings has begun.
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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
— John Ashbery
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You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide…
— Martin Amis
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Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.
— Doug Stanhope
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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
— Mark Strand
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I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all…
— Frederick Seidel
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I like poems that are daggers that sing.
— Frederick Seidel
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The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
— Stan Brakhage
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All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
— John Fowles
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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
— Brian Ferneyhough
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I like poems that are little games.
— Peter Davison
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I like poems that are complex.
— Peter Davison
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