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I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable. Marge Simon

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As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yeats's poetry in college. I respect it now and am still ravished by certain lines, but I don't go back to him again and again. I do go back to Emily Dickinson again and again. Margo Jefferson

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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. Marguerite Young

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One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time. Maria Shriver

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Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. Maria Shriver

Truth Truth Is Thought Made Everybody Kind Seem More Poetry Mainstream Always Been Than Anyone Loves Much Really

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. Marilyn Hacker

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. Marilyn Hacker

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I read poetry to save time. Marilyn Monroe

Time Poetry Read Save

The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. Marilynne Robinson

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. Mark Strand

Creative Writing Programs Something Poetry Departments Happens English Creative Writing Universities

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. Mark Strand

Say Would Poetry Always Testimony Been American Personal

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. Mark Strand

Life Art Made Unless Has-Been Poetry Course Been Elevated Sufficiently

Not every gay person recites poetry or has read Keats. You can get readers through anything if the characters are complicated. You can't dismiss Josey Wales' quite liberal worldview. Marlon James

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Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry. Marshall Brickman

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. Martin Amis

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. Martin Cruz Smith

Book Big Back Collections Poetry Got Bed Greeks Goes Romans

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me. Marv Levy

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When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. Mary Doria Russell

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I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves. Mary Szybist

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise. Mary Szybist

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