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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be… — Wallace Stegner
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you… — Harold Bloom
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. — David Antin
You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide notes than there… — Martin Amis
Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...],… — Elizabeth Bishop
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect,… — PJ Harvey
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. — Joy Harjo
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly… — Paul Celan
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. — Paul Celan
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your… — Richard Eberhart
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. — Hayden Carruth
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision,… — Anthony Hecht
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,… — Jim Jarmusch
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble — Charles Olson
What is Friendship, Definition of Friend, True Friendship - All about the meaning of true friends, what friendship means, meaning of friendship bracelets, poems, ring — Mark Vernon
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came… — Betsy Lerner
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came… — Betsy Lerner
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and… — Unknown Author
I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us. — Linh Dinh
I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch… — Eileen Myles
. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made… — Plato
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality.… — James Broughton
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things… — E E Cummings
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the… — Jean Cocteau

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