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Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images Picture Quote #1

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot Picture Quote #1

New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems Picture Quote #1

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such Picture Quote #1

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They’re short, they’re intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article Picture Quote #1

There’s one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas Picture Quote #1

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You don’t help people in your poems. I’ve been trying to help people all my life - that’s my troubl Picture Quote #1

I don’t want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people’s feelings a lot of the time Picture Quote #1

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process Picture Quote #1

I’ve thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn’t work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem Picture Quote #1

My poems - I don’t even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made Picture Quote #1

Poems don’t have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings Picture Quote #1

To write poems, I think it’s important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry Picture Quote #1

The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words Picture Quote #1

I don’t work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different Picture Quote #1

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook Picture Quote #1

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Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called ‘shadow work,’ not least because that is no small part of their own way of working Picture Quote #1

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don’t leap into my mind when I’m distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music Picture Quote #1

I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems Picture Quote #1

My poems getting published in Russia doesn’t make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I’m not trying to be coy, but it doesn’t tickle my ego Picture Quote #1

I’m truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines Picture Quote #1

I really just love reading. It’s my favorite thing, performing my poems live Picture Quote #1

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The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year Picture Quote #1

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off Picture Quote #1

I’m interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual Picture Quote #1

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language Picture Quote #1

I don’t think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery Picture Quote #1

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry Picture Quote #1

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Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images (Poems Quotes) The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot (Poems Quotes) New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don’t forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems (Poems Quotes) Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such (Poems Quotes) In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They’re short, they’re intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article (Poems Quotes) There’s one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas (Poems Quotes) You don’t help people in your poems. I’ve been trying to help people all my life - that’s my troubl (Poems Quotes) I don’t want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people’s feelings a lot of the time (Poems Quotes) I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process (Poems Quotes) I’ve thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn’t work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem (Poems Quotes) My poems - I don’t even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience (Poems Quotes) 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 (Poems Quotes) I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made (Poems Quotes) Poems don’t have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings (Poems Quotes) To write poems, I think it’s important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry (Poems Quotes) The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words (Poems Quotes) I don’t work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different (Poems Quotes) A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook (Poems Quotes) Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called ‘shadow work,’ not least because that is no small part of their own way of working (Poems Quotes) I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don’t leap into my mind when I’m distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music (Poems Quotes) I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems (Poems Quotes) My poems getting published in Russia doesn’t make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I’m not trying to be coy, but it doesn’t tickle my ego (Poems Quotes) I’m truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines (Poems Quotes) I really just love reading. It’s my favorite thing, performing my poems live (Poems Quotes) The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year (Poems Quotes) Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off (Poems Quotes) I’m interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual (Poems Quotes) Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language (Poems Quotes) I don’t think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery (Poems Quotes) I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry (Poems Quotes)

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