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Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive… — Louis Aragon
My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy. — Frank O'Hara
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems — Carol Ann Duffy
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril — Andrew Motion
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. — Andrew Motion
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 don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a… — Andrew Motion
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only… — Sharon Olds
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x,… — Sharon Olds
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college;… — Sharon Olds
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he… — Unknown Author
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it… — Adrienne Rich
Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds. — Amiri Baraka
They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to — John Trudell
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle
Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate. — Marvin Bell
Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published. — Patrick Kavanagh
Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to… — Patrick Kavanagh
These poems need to be released from their cages, — Coleman Barks
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we… — Donald Hall
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. — Donald Hall
Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels;… — Barbara Pym
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. — Marilyn Hacker
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. — Robert Penn Warren

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