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- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything. — Jim Dine
- I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which… — John Ashbery
- I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't… — Kenneth Koch
- In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry;… — Jonas Mekas
- Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab… — Nizar Qabbani
- I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time… — Adrian Mitchell
- I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I… — Raegan Butcher
- My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth. — Sarah Kay
- So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how… — Tracy K. Smith
- Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study… — William Butler Yeats
- Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I… — Diane Wakoski