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One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace Elizabeth Gilbert
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through... Walt Whitman
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share. Andrew Motion
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental. Andrew Motion
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. Andrew Motion
Thom Gunn quote: "Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about..."
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. Thom Gunn
Franz Grillparzer quote: "To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem;..."
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. Franz Grillparzer
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control. Stephen Greenblatt
Robert Frost quote: "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a..."
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. Robert Frost
E. M. Forster quote: "A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to..."
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! Wislawa Szymborska
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. Robert Fitzgerald
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. Helen Dunmore
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. Peter Porter
Peter Davison quote: "The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be..."
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. Peter Davison

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