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My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time. — Yehuda Amichai
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more. — Wendy Cope
Many of my poems are not sexual. — Thom Gunn
Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a… — Stephen Dobyns
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely… — Stephen Dobyns
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts… — Ellen Bass
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I… — Linton Kwesi Johnson
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top… — Yusef Komunyakaa
My poems mean what people take them to mean. — Paul Valery
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls)… — E E Cummings
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other… — Robert Graves
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it… — Oscar Wilde
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision… — Gary Snyder
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all… — Charles Bukowski
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever… — Walt Whitman
I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems — Philip Larkin
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if… — Charles Bukowski
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. — Honore de Balzac
I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. — David Almond
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. — Sylvia Plath
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and… — Jose Rizal
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my… — Tony Buzan
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could… — James Welch
My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes. — Jess Walter

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