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In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter… — Unknown Author
Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing. — Lucille Clifton
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. — Salvatore Quasimodo
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no… — Jack Prelutsky
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun… — Jack Prelutsky
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. — Jack Prelutsky
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books… — Jack Prelutsky
Poems have their own fates, like children. You have only to give birth to them. — Andrei Voznesensky
Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in… — Scott Cunningham
Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain.… — Carolyn Kizer
Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be sung, newspapers to… — Frank Smith
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What… — Kwame Dawes
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various… — Anna Kamienska
I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all. — Anna Kamienska
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down.… — James Salter
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and… — Robert Harris
I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not… — Diane Wakoski
There are poems inside of you that paper can’t handle. — Unknown Author
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden nature of knowledge and… — Michael Collier
The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless, exhilarated, and transformed… — Michael Collier
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way… — Rae Armantrout
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to… — Rumer Godden
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a… — Mark Strand
Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating. — Doug Stanhope

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