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The difference between 'lighght' and another type of poem with more words is that it doesn't have a reading process. Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn't. You can see it all at once. It's instant. Aram Saroyan
You Words Reading Beginning Type Once See Poem More Instant Between Another End Difference Middle Process Even
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem. Bill Viola
Words Simple Sometimes Fragment Way Poem Simple Way Write Like Very Begin Might Really Works Image
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme. Billy Collins
Trust Key Rest First Signature Out Poem Constructed Reader Because Meter Line Lot Used Tone Basis
I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else. Billy Collins
Inspire Reading Else Find Poem Particularly Well Nonfiction Anything Anything Else
If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with. Billy Collins
You People Walk Thought Pen Those Out Record Detector Beaches Something Poem More Write Counter Simply Like Around Metal Agenda Using Letter Resignation
I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places. Billy Collins
Good Journey Think Too Some Poem Lead Demands Make Reader Goes Want Places Interesting Early
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door. Billy Collins
Made Few Type Macintosh Out Poem Write Bound Up Canadian Send Door After Notebooks Then Company Drafts
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing. Billy Collins
You Sometimes Will First Sense Think Other Tell Finds Poem Develop Feel Does Occur Line Continue Continuing Times Goes Gets Going Wants Reason Momentum Nowhere
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem. Billy Collins
Time School Listening Kind High High School Poem Poetry Call Said Were Listener Listeners Just Deploy Happens Little Little Time Radio Resist
Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed. Billy Collins
Music Own Has-Been Composed Cases Poem Poems Results Had Attempts Written Put Disastrous Verbal Been Ear Set
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it. Billy Collins
Music You Yourself People Song Car Will Memorize Poem Simon Poetry Write Disadvantages Head Over Along Heads Sing Gets Listen Just Paul Paul Simon Pop Your Pop Song Naturally Popular Popular Music
I wrote something when I was 9 that seemed pretty good for a 9 year old; it concerned flowers in our family garden - I was grateful my mother praised it. Of course, I found out later it was pretty silly, but it was the first poem I was proud of. Brenda Hillman
Good Family Grateful Garden Mother Old First Year Our Later Out Pretty Silly Pretty Good Seemed Something Poem Wrote Concerned Course Proud Praised Year-Old Found Flowers
'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and 'copied it out.' Brian Eno
Words Down Paper Out Table One-Night Poem Kitchen Kitchen Table Voices Written Piece Intact Just Peter Copied Image Album Night Two
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. Brian Ferneyhough
Symphony Easier Adjusting Compose Poem Write True Piece Still Than Just Form Tuning Manual Using
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? C. Day Lewis
Good Earth Claim Would Poem Self-Expression However May Just Who Expresses Pearl
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come. C. K. Williams
Music You Waiting Writing Sometimes Language Every Way Kind About Poem Poems Poetry Never Come Know Going The Hardest Thing Different Ordinary Different Kind Hardest Hardest Thing Thing Necessity
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens. C. K. Williams
You Sometimes Poem Write Never Want Happens Really
I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.' Camila Cabello
Day Crazy Song Remember Old Say Wow Able About Poem Like Know Look Wrote Felt Years Person Going
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. Carl Sandburg
Man Woman Birth Give Poem Write Like Commanding Child Ordering Pregnant Pregnant Woman
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music. Carly Simon
Music Sometimes Other Local Lyrics Melody Would Poem Write Take Put Boyfriend Times Scratch Start
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play. Carol Ann Duffy
People Language Young Way Able Poem Form Literary Young People Century Connect Deep Play
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. Carol Ann Duffy
Writing Before See Poem Shape Arriving Just Process Start
As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south. Carolyn Kizer
Remember First About Poem Between Wrote Real South Wheat Fields
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 Once Poem Both He Knew Knows Passage His Questioned Replied Regarding Meaning Meaning Of Meant Now
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. Charles Simic
Enough Sew Poem Poetry Blanket Wanted Swift Needle
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. Clint Smith
World Will Seen Before Engineering Brooks Hopes See Something Poem Poetry He Him Read Because Does Might Grant Helps Career
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