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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very… — Virginia Woolf
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with the… — Helen Dunmore
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems. — Philip Larkin
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you… — May Sarton
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them… — Robert Adams
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and… — Gary Snyder
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer… — Ashley Judd
Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't… — Dan Bern
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way. — Dan Beachy-Quick
The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does. — Unknown Author
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems;… — John Fowles
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that… — Ben Gibbard
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems… — Florence Welch
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.… — Mark Twain
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.… — Unknown Author
People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems],… — Gwee Li Sui
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many… — Amber Tamblyn
I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely.… — Fay Wray
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of… — Diane di Prima
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core… — Unknown Author
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the… — Jorie Graham
The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere. — Ilya Kaminsky
I have seen the universe! It is made of poems! — Sjon
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness… — Unknown Author
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the… — John Drinkwater

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