The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
David Whyte
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Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the whole shebang.
Jonathan Miles
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I like poems that are complex.
Peter Davison
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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
Mark Strand
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A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.
George Oppen
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Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
Thom Gunn
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I have written symphonic poems and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression.
Carmine Coppola
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Harold Bloom
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But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
Andrew Motion
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I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.
Roger McGough
BecauseComputerPoemsMany
My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
Jonathan Galassi
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If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
Sherman Alexie
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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
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Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
Ellen Bass
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Many of my poems are not sexual.
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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
Carol Ann Duffy
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
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The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.
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People can put their best poems straight onto the web.
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John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.
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It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.
Seamus Heaney
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
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I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word 'accessible.'
Billy Collins
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We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
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