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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring Earth Poems Like Returned Knows Child

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. Joan Miro

Music Words Try Poems Colors Shape Like Notes Apply

Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.' Sylvia Plath

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given. Amiri Baraka

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The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. David Antin

Memories Anxiety Remember Deficiencies Ancient About Poems Poets Had Always Praying Began Greek Oral Them Help Muse

No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated. Heinrich Boll

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems. Jack Kerouac

Long Indian Silly Poems Write Hard

The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer encounter poems alone, and many varieties of experience would emerge from such an exercise. John Burnside

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Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides. John Updike

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems. Ringo Starr

Poems Like Beethoven

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. A. R. Ammons

Other Poem Laws Poems Take Never Becoming Which Each Extensions

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there. Aaron Neville

About Poems Poetry Write Got iPhone

The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems. Adam Goldberg

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The 'Iliad' covered only two months of the great ten-year war with Troy. At least six other epic poems preceded or continued the events in the 'Iliad', but they survive only as fragments. Adrienne Mayor

War Great Events Other Fragments Months Poems Only Troy Least Continue Covered Survive Six Epic Iliad Two

Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system. Alexandra Adornetto

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Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a time that I didn't love writing and reading. When I was really young, my mother would read poems to me. I loved Edgar Allan Poe - I am sure I didn't understand it, but I loved it. Alexandra Adornetto

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I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well. Alice McDermott

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I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. Alice Walker

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it. Amber Tamblyn

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom. Amit Bhatia

People Some People Bathroom Some Poems Write Like Sing

I like poems and keep sharing them online. Amitabh Bachchan

Online Poems Sharing Like Them Keep

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share. Andrew Motion

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