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- I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
- Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
- The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
- The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice…
- I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way…
- I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. I seem…
- We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very…
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- 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
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've… — Sam Abell