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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up. Paul Muldoon

Try First Sense Poem Having Writes First Of All Course Without Go End Up Whatsoever Any Going Where Them Each

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays. Paul Muldoon

Teacher School Laziness High Would High School Poem Poems Weekly Write Instead Accepted Were Than Essay Essays Impulse Certain

The best thing anybody has ever done is to advise me against publishing a poem that shows me at less than my best, such as it is. That's the kind of advice most of us resist but really should relish. Paul Muldoon

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it. Philip Levine

Year Gone Back Poem Left Then

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space. Richard Corliss

Space White Air Would Would-Be Poem Anguished Mostly Were Production

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. Rita Dove

You Travel World Think Poem Write Aged Certainly

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. Robert Fitzgerald

Me You Heart You Can Do It Matter Language Values Otherwise See Direct Seems Poem Between Understands How Making Interaction English

For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante. Robert Gottlieb

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. Robert Penn Warren

Life Man Light Myth See Poem Rather Poetry Making End May In The End Which Little Capacity Meaningful Thing

The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think. Robert Pinsky

Good Trust Wonderful Entitled Poet Live Think Say Slogan Easy Poem Robert Wrote Always Verses Century

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities. Robert Pinsky

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My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe. Ross Lynch

Favorite Poe Poem Edgar Lee Ever

For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means. Rupi Kaur

Me You Word Finished Power Feeling Reading Every Other Honey Once Possible Easy Poem Only Poetry Stuck Emotion Feel Know Read Diction Get After Means Milk Last

To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing. Sam Shepard

Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye. Seamus Heaney

You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully. Serj Tankian

You Song Say Poem More Powerful Lot Than Really Express

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. Sharon Creech

Me People Writing Worth Made Reading Entered Worth Reading Some Poem Poetry Written Mainly Since Around Contest Won Maybe After Realize Turned Reason Novels Ever Received

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. Sharon Olds

Own Poem Force Itself May Being Assemble Creature

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. Spike Jonze

Great Everybody Poem Reaction Leaves Different Room Much

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