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I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems — Roger McGough
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret… — Louis Sullivan
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible. — Billy Collins
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It… — Helen Dunmore
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense… — Helen Dunmore
I write poems to find out why I write them — Stephen Dobyns
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess… — Wislawa Szymborska
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity… — Christian Wiman
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to… — Story Musgrave
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of… — Carol Muske-Dukes
I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy. — Billy Sherwood
Gradually I became aware that professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs. — Michael Donaghy
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch,… — Paul Lockhart
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. — Anne Stevenson
Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out… — Raegan Butcher
Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark… — Edward Hirsch
You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that.… — Fleur Adcock
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. — Edith SÃ¶dergran
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning… — Susan Griffin
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design,… — Nan Fairbrother
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments… — Marilyn Hacker
If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring. — Rumi
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire… — Joseph Epstein
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to… — David Antin

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