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I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet. Taylor Swift
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
Do you know what a poem is, Esther?' No, what?' I would say. A piece of dust.' Then, just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.' And of course Buddy wouldn't have any answer to that, because what I said was true. People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see... Sylvia Plath
He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from getting his first period. He wrote poems too. It's my personal belief that if men are writing poems, they're making up for something else like a big hair back, or one ball. Not that one ball is a bad thing. Especially since I don't know any females who are dying to their their hands on a set of balls. The way I see it, the less balls, the better. Chelsea Handler
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
Robert Penn Warren quote: "You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them..."
You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking. Robert Penn Warren
John Fowles quote: "We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who..."
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. John Fowles
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard's kitchen mat...I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had... Sylvia Plath
Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need. Margaret Atwood
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing..."
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. Jeffrey Eugenides
James Broughton quote: "It was as important to live poetically as to write poems."
It was as important to live poetically as to write poems. James Broughton
Sylvia Plath quote: "But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good."
But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. Sylvia Plath
J. D. Salinger quote: "They're just people that write poems that get published and..."
They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets. J. D. Salinger
And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up. Alice Walker
To her surprise, Madeleine found herself contemplating this proposal. Why not tell her parents everything, curl up in the backseat of the car, and let them take her home? She could move into her old bedroom, with the sleigh bed and the Madeline wallpaper. She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. Jeffrey Eugenides

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