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I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you… — Marilyn Hacker
One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a… — Peter Brodie
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter. — Louisa May Alcott
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his… — Thom Gunn
Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more… — Robert Frost
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems — Walt Whitman
Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations. — Charles Ghigna
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic… — Mark Strand
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. — Gregory Harrison
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may… — Maya Angelou
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen. — Bertolt Brecht
I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I read the poems… — Jack Gilbert
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read… — Peter Porter
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and… — Terrance Hayes
Peter Hyland's poems are both elegantly wrought and meditatively wild. They testify to an original, restless intelligence. He can cast his imagination into a woman's… — Tony Hoagland
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will… — Jason Silva
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals;… — Wole Soyinka
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. — Mark Strand
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives… — Seamus Heaney
Listen to presences inside poems. — Rumi
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are… — Audre Lorde

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