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I've always thought my poems told stories. Douglas Dunn

Thought Poems Always Stories

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone. Dylan Thomas

Love Alone Myself Words First Before Nursery Poems Could Had Knew Come Read Were Just Rhymes To Love Them

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction. Dylan Thomas

Conviction Think Too Typed Harsh Bad Some Poems Until Sort Always Least Lends Then Certainty Appear Things

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language. Eavan Boland

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. Edward Hirsch

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God. Edward Hirsch

God Think Finding Poems Am Lot Any Where

The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost. Edward Hirsch

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth. Edward Hirsch

Machinery Poems Like Human Warmth

When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away. Eileen Myles

Love You Hate Amazing Somebody Wish Go Away Think Those Would Poem Poems Written Go Love You Anymore Them Away

Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away. Eileen Myles

Time Good You Long Long Time Way Kind Bad Good Ones Poems Bad Ones Poetry Crowds Through Selection Bottom Long Time Ago Feel Fell Came Up Act Your Forward Away

Turkey is a complex country. Most readers are women, of all generations, and they are passionate about books. However, the written culture is mostly patriarchal. In general, men write; women read. I would like to see this pattern changing. More women should write novels, poems, plays, and hopefully, more men will read fiction. Elif Safak

Culture Women Will Men Country Changing Books Complex Hopefully Would See About General Poems More Write Written Generations Like Most Mostly Read Readers Passionate However Patriarchal Fiction Pattern Turkey Should Novels Plays

When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she got older, she began to hear words and songs in her head everywhere she went - songs she loved, like 'Begin the Beguine' by Cole Porter, and her own words that sometimes tumbled out into poems. Elizabeth Flock

Words Sometimes Poet Sit Own Young Older Cole Porter Alice Everywhere Out Poems Songs Head Like She Got Hear Began Very Begin American Front Listen Just Loved Used Radio Porter Her

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

Great Email Several Gifts Poems Writer Read Heard Listeners Internationally

If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle. Fanny Howe

Hope Alone Daily Struggle Beauty Reading Difficulty Would Would-Be Record Someone Poems Like Familiar Place Notebook

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book. Fay Wray

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing. Florence Welch

Christmas Birthday Me Amazing Fans Own Incredible Kind Some Poems Songs Put Stuff Make Around Got Up Artwork Where Which Package Loyal Based Actually Thing Cards Competitions Set

Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression - these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose. Floyd Skloot

Work Music Language Though Classical About Poems Structure Compression Poetry Remains Split Prose Feel Between Freer Also Sound Meter Repetition Formal Rhyme Rhythm Uses Elements Core

My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned. Forest Whitaker

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. Frank Ocean

Life Me You Writing My Life Somewhere First Singing Booked Poems Write Studio Along Like Know Stevie Stevie Wonder Became Wonder Replica Hughes Wanting Radio Season

I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. Gail Carson Levine

School Club Member High City High School Poems Charter Poetry Student New Were Anthology Up Scrabble York New York New York City Grew Scribble Elementary Elementary School Published

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