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Poems Quotes

While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell Picture Quote #1

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written Picture Quote #1

Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn’t. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you Picture Quote #1

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it Picture Quote #1

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them Picture Quote #1

I don’t really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn’t create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people Picture Quote #1

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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives Picture Quote #1

Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger Picture Quote #1

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself Picture Quote #1

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal Picture Quote #1

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood Picture Quote #1

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master Picture Quote #1

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I’ve had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I’ve been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can’t control that. Nor would I want to Picture Quote #1

I’m going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I’m going to write the songs that people can’t write for themselves Picture Quote #1

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy Picture Quote #1

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature Picture Quote #1

Poetry is what I’ve done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems Picture Quote #1

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems.... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there Picture Quote #1

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Each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature Picture Quote #1

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something Picture Quote #1

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem Picture Quote #1

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing Picture Quote #1

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express Picture Quote #1

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box Picture Quote #1

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I’m much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I’ve gotten very surgical about poems Picture Quote #1

There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me Picture Quote #1

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well Picture Quote #1

I don’t like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there’s a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem Picture Quote #1

A lot of people are writing poems and don’t realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address Picture Quote #1

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader’s job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels Picture Quote #1

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While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell (Poems Quotes) The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written (Poems Quotes) Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn’t. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you (Poems Quotes) I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it (Poems Quotes) All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them (Poems Quotes) I don’t really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn’t create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people (Poems Quotes) Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives (Poems Quotes) Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger (Poems Quotes) I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself (Poems Quotes) I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal (Poems Quotes) I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood (Poems Quotes) He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master (Poems Quotes) I’ve had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I’ve been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can’t control that. Nor would I want to (Poems Quotes) I’m going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I’m going to write the songs that people can’t write for themselves (Poems Quotes) Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy (Poems Quotes) Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature (Poems Quotes) Poetry is what I’ve done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems (Poems Quotes) I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems.... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there (Poems Quotes) Each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature (Poems Quotes) I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something (Poems Quotes) I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem (Poems Quotes) For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing (Poems Quotes) Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express (Poems Quotes) I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box (Poems Quotes) I’m much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I’ve gotten very surgical about poems (Poems Quotes) There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece of music. And there are books of poems that I love so much that I carry them around with me (Poems Quotes) Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well (Poems Quotes) I don’t like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there’s a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem (Poems Quotes) A lot of people are writing poems and don’t realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address (Poems Quotes) Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader’s job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels (Poems Quotes)

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