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I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
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A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.
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When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy…
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It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
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I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational…
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from…
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The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once…
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While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.
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Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not…
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To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail,…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We…
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Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.
— Marvin Bell
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Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
— Anne Stevenson
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I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.
— Amit Bhatia
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We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what…
— Harry Crews
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I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look…
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