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Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is… — Norbert Wiener
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an… — Thomas Merton
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as… — Mary Oliver
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there.… — Mary Oliver
Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is. — Robert Bly
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place… — Robert Bly
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see… — Stanley Kunitz
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to… — Stanley Kunitz
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems. — Stanley Kunitz
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy,… — N. T. Wright
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you… — Gail Carson Levine
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the… — August Kleinzahler
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad.… — Leslie Fiedler
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats — Irving Layton
A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. — Al Purdy
I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices. — Lorna Dee Cervantes
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and… — Ntozake Shange
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free… — A. R. Ammons
Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems. — Karl Shapiro
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because,… — Howard Nemerov
In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves.… — Mark Doty
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the… — Franz Grillparzer
People can put their best poems straight onto the web. — Roger McGough

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