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Poem Quotes

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Mario Benedetti

Love Luck Being Transform Poem Able

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

End Cut Poem Though Much Revise

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Something Poem Like About Does

'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.

Poetry Write Always Out Pretty Poem

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

Myself Process Want Try Up Poem

It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.

America You Big Statement Poem Your

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Great Poem Your Flesh Shall Very

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

Natasha Trethewey

Relationship Poetry Think Out Poem

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

You Sometimes Want Never Write Poem

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Book First Nation Magazine Got Poem

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Robert Penn Warren

Deepest Autobiography Poem Attempt

I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.

Morning Writing Poem Should Every

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Dance Movement Poem Word Which Each

Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Wait You Fast Run Write Poem

The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.

Jonathan Galassi

Believe You Say Poem Only Really

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

Music Writing Shadows Poem Like

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

Work Poem Intensity Most Lot

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

Great New Right Line Used Poem

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

I Am Gravity Excitement Fabric Poem

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

Challenge End Down First Line Poem

Whether it's a poem I'm working on or a picture I've snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it.

Curiosity Thinking Picture Feel Poem

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Cesare Lombroso

God Alone Meaning Now Poem Knew

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

Way Write Praise Poet Poem

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.

Love Time Changes Poet Because Poem

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