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Poem Quotes by Natasha Trethewey
- 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…
- I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
- I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell…
- The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry…
- A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation…
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- 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
- 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, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its… — Paul Auster
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem. — Beck
- Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger
- Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. — James Buchan
- But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you… — Jane Campion
- If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. — David Carradine
- A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. — A. R. Ammons
- Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. — A. R. Ammons