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Poems Quotes by Nikki Giovanni
- The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
- Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
- I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.
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- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster
- Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? — William Blake
- What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into… — Gwendolyn Brooks
- I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. — James Broughton
- If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. — Jane Campion
- If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. — Sherman Alexie
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