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• I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
• Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and… — Unknown Author
• I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against… — Gary Snyder
• The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere. — Ilya Kaminsky
• Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of… — Rabindranath Tagore
• My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth
• But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — Andrew Motion
• I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of… — Andrew Motion
• My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we… — Sharon Olds
• Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson
• Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want… — Mary Oliver
• I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which… — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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