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What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is… — John L. Casti
Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find… — Gail Tsukiyama
Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic… — Gary Lineker
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to… — Karen Russell
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn… — George Steiner
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose… — Blaise Cendrars
When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?' — Wendy Cope
Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an… — Sharon Olds
I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. — Carol Ann Duffy
If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just… — Carol Ann Duffy
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront… — Seamus Heaney
Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only… — Seamus Heaney
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free… — Andrew Motion
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. — Andrew Motion
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into… — Paul Muldoon
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used… — Sharon Olds
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. — Sharon Olds
A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be… — John Keats
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature… — Frank O'Hara
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot… — Kenneth Koch
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem — James Schuyler
It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of… — James Schuyler
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a… — James Schuyler

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