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Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own. Jerome Charyn
Life Solitude My Life Own White Heroic Seventh About Haunted Poems Emily Emily Dickinson Had Crush Since Tales Discovered Persona Grade Landscape Who Ever Her Inner Startling
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. Jessye Norman
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I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language. Jessye Norman
Love Christmas Me Book People Language Sit Other Everything John See Some John Grisham Angelou Poems Given Mary Particular French Genre Read How German Maya Angelou Just Use English Whole Novel Oliver
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Jill Scott
Music Me Writing First Poems Impetus First Place Heartbreak Place
Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet. Jim Carroll
Myself Me Poet Everybody Kind Poems Having Voice Prophecy Beat Like Calling Because Rock Rock And Roll Up Roll Screwed Screwed-Up Found
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. John Barton
Long Relative Say Has-Been Would Constant Poem Poems Write Been Chose Conscious Level
My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that. John Burnside
Me Dark Tool Lyrical Appropriate Pretty Seem Poems More Poetry Tend Far Exploring Novels
I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports. John Edgar Wideman
Sports Writing About Poems Write Writer Had Liked Read Around Always Any Being Stories Little Fun Thing
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. John Fowles
Words Poems Poetry Poets Write Simply Who
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up. John Fuller
People Think Torn Poems Anguish Write Written Lot Up Them Then Such Things Things
My poems are always about my life in one way or another. Jonathan Galassi
Life My Life Way One-Way About Poems Another Always
Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the whole shebang. Jonathan Miles
Own Unlike Melodies Entities Poems Songs Written Self-Contained Thus Come Read Equipped Rhythms Whole
My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life. Joseph Brodsky
Life My Life Poems Write Most Doing Been Intention
I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations. Joseph Brodsky
Work Future People Will Believe Future Generations Poems Only Generations Wrote Am Convinced Useful Now
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people. Joseph Brodsky
Culture People Nation Poems Novels Things Belong
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer. Joseph Jacobs
First Earth Possessed Poems Shape Glimpse Name Passing Greeks Afforded Which Inhabitants Notions Homer
I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem. Juan Felipe Herrera
People Half Corner Out Pocket Poem Poems Could Read Sticking Audience Hip Diego Where San San Diego Place Asking Stand Used
Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about. Judith Viorst
Book Thought Complaints Plenty Laugh Able About Poems Write Going After Groans Found Starting
I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I sent it out... and I couldn't believe that they would turn down my poems about faithful dogs. Judith Viorst
Faithful Down Believe Out Would About Poems Only Write Stuff Dogs Wanted Sent Turn
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. June Jordan
Myself Me Travel People Country Soldier Way Those Arabic Arabs Would Poems Had Know Until Wrote Go Lebanon Years Years Ago Being Them Translated Many Here Two
I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person. Kangana Ranaut
People Live Poems Write Know Am Up Person Expectations Conventional Cool Coolest Things Meditate
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that. Kate Bernheimer
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When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that's when it switched for me to songwriting. That's when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15. Kelsea Ballerini
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I think poems return us to that place of mud and dirt and earth, sun and rain. Kevin Young
Rain Think Earth Sun Poems Dirt Return Place Us Mud
That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that. Kevin Young
Experience Sense Embody Able Poems More More And More Mystery Also Revelation Turn Need
In a long poem or a sequence of poems, you're trying to formalize your obsessions and give them a shape and a name. The key is to realize if the connections you are making are ones with resonance. Kevin Young
You Key Long Resonance Give Poem Poems Shape Obsessions Name Making Trying Them Realize Your Sequence Connections
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