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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend. — Martial
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. — Thom Gunn
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never… — Alasdair Gray
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more.… — Tracy K. Smith
Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas. — Tracy K. Smith
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of… — Gordon Getty
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure. — Martial
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. — Langston Hughes
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite… — Richard Hugo
William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending… — Eliot Weinberger
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. — Grazia Deledda
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. — Edith Sitwell
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I… — Anne Stevenson
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates… — Robert Fitzgerald
As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we… — Julia Cameron
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads — Marcus Aurelius
The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. — Chet Raymo
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long… — Gilbert Sorrentino
Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear… — Dorothea Lasky
I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems. — Arnold Adoff
In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses to a heron,… — Unknown Author
Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to… — Lynn Freed
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems,… — Michael Jackson

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