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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. — Robert Indiana
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. — Anne Stevenson
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. — Howard Nemerov
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. — Jose Bergamin
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. — Mark Strand
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. — Mark Strand
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. — Stephane Mallarme
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is. — Theodore Roethke
I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild… — Stanley Kunitz
I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate… — Richard Wilbur
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind… — David Lee Roth
To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden.… — Jean Renoir
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things — Rita Dove
No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream.… — Robert Graves
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh… — Wilfred Owen
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law — Wilfred Owen
Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would… — Leslie Fiedler
The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and… — Terri Windling
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and… — Julia Alvarez
I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now… — Natasha Trethewey
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the… — Yusef Komunyakaa
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment… — A. R. Ammons
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem… — Robert Penn Warren

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