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When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed. Felix Dennis
You Writing Three Difficult Astonishment See Totally Poem Hours Look Passed Clock Up Different Start Zone
To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. Franz Grillparzer
Freedom Guns Seems Poem Feet Like Arms Within Verses Requires
Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku is the shortest poem form in the world. These are a few examples of a minimalistic aesthetic in Japanese art and culture. Fumio Sasaki
Art Culture World Space Negative Value Black Black And White Few White Examples Poem Brush Aesthetic Traditional Form Japanese Them Shortest Figures Paintings
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph. Garrison Keillor
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Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept. Gary Lineker
College Before Too Drama Secrets Embarrassing Poem Shakespeare More Share Written Feel Studying Comedic She Although Inept Odd Than Romantic Anything Used Now Started Innermost
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book. George Murray
Book Think Someone Poem Having Wrong Read Anything Even Twice
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. George Saintsbury
Indeed Though Poem Magnificent Greatest West Odyssey Romance Stories Story Much Iliad Original
It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of moviemaking. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film. George Stevens
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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. Gerard Malanga
Picture Thinking About Poem Feel Without Snapped Curiosity Whether Working
Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem comes into my head, and I just have to go to the page, to the typewriter, to the computer or whatever and write it. Gioconda Belli
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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
Strength Poem Poems Exclude Call Mostly Any Page
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. Hart Crane
Failure Long Suitable Other Lyric Sections Folk Poem Fact Contains Material Prove Lore Form Epic Therefore Bridge Interrelated Need
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it. Hart Crane
Future Vision Worth Past Out Worthy Rises Poem Delusion Between Real Exist Loss Links Any Form Explain Present
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. Howard Nemerov
You First Think Poem Only Had Robert Robert Frost Said Always Fake Real Line Frost Agree Inclined Last
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing. Israel Horovitz
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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. James Buchan
Poem Poetry Purpose Contain Like Importance Does Any Information Translating Notice Warning
What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it. James Fenton
Luxury Will Poet Somewhere Beauty Preserved Lyric Ruin Mine Find Able Some Someone Poem More Remains Write Nobody Principle Read Than Want Form Published Need Position
The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone. James Fenton
Book Words Reading Proper Something Poem Written Spoken Term Itself Stone Burial Form Reproduction Cut Means Epitaph Original Appears Engraved Aware Tomb
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. James Fenton
Challenge First Down Respond Poem Thrown Generally Like Line End Itself Rhyme Which Speaking
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information. James Fenton
Memory Remember Aid Say Some Poem Poems Purpose Device Enable Information Rhyme Themselves Us Whole
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. James Laughlin
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With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said. James Laughlin
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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. James Schuyler
Poem Poetry Prose Reduced However Sentence Much
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem. James Schuyler
Though Poem Toward Particularly Revise End Often Cut Much
I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious. James Tate
Love You Starts Out Find Seemingly Entirely Something Poem Take Instance Know Until Go Beforehand End Very Frivolous Stake Then Serious Grows Gravity Inconsequential
When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things. Jamila Woods
Song Writing Those Would Brooks About Someone Poem Poetry Between Talk Always Hip-Hop Very Influenced Spaces Teach Connections Things Started
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