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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

I’m trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I’m trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it’s usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination Picture Quote #1

When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you’re reciting Picture Quote #1

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each Picture Quote #1

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens’ poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism Picture Quote #1

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn’t writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then Picture Quote #1

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People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels Picture Quote #1

I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema veritÃƒÂ©, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that’s the film making that I was interested in Picture Quote #1

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class Picture Quote #1

In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,Malnourished poems that professors love;The bad grammar and dirty words that catchIn the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.Pablo, your words are rain I run through,Grass I sleep in Picture Quote #1

I’ve not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot Picture Quote #1

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief Picture Quote #1

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My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn’t yet fallen off completely Picture Quote #1

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn’t understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems Picture Quote #1

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing? Picture Quote #1

Babies are like poems. They’re beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they’re silly and they’re irritating Picture Quote #1

It was in a stonecutter’s house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery’s grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters Picture Quote #1

Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you’re heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form Picture Quote #1

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There’s so much to think about when you’re becoming an adult, and there’s so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement Picture Quote #1

I’ve got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it’s too late. But writing poems and letters doesn’t seem to do much good Picture Quote #1

I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book Picture Quote #1

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end Picture Quote #1

My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I’m initiating something, or I’m making a move Picture Quote #1

The interesting thing is that you don’t often meet a poet who doesn’t have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they’re afraid of being seen as light versifiers Picture Quote #1

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I’ve already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry Picture Quote #1

I love my funny poems, but I’d rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that’s the best Picture Quote #1

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything Picture Quote #1

Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man’s or woman’s, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.) Picture Quote #1

I don’t think I’d ever get any better as a poet if I didn’t push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I’m stubborn Picture Quote #1

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers Picture Quote #1

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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’m trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I’m trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it’s usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination. (Poems Quotes) When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you’re reciting. (Poems Quotes) Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each. (Poems Quotes) I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens’ poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism. (Poems Quotes) I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn’t writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then. (Poems Quotes) People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels. (Poems Quotes) I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema veritÃƒÂ©, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that’s the film making that I was interested in. (Poems Quotes) Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class. (Poems Quotes) In school, I hated poetry - those skinny,Malnourished poems that professors love;The bad grammar and dirty words that catchIn the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech.Pablo, your words are rain I run through,Grass I sleep in. (Poems Quotes) I’ve not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot. (Poems Quotes) The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief. (Poems Quotes) My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn’t yet fallen off completely. (Poems Quotes) I know, basketball is a dance. I didn’t understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems... (Poems Quotes) Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing? (Poems Quotes) Babies are like poems. They’re beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they’re silly and they’re irritating. (Poems Quotes) It was in a stonecutter’s house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery’s grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters. (Poems Quotes) Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you’re heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form. (Poems Quotes) There’s so much to think about when you’re becoming an adult, and there’s so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement. (Poems Quotes) I’ve got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it’s too late. But writing poems and letters doesn’t seem to do much good. (Poems Quotes) I started writing as a child. But I didn’t think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book. (Poems Quotes) I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. (Poems Quotes) My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I’m initiating something, or I’m making a move. (Poems Quotes) The interesting thing is that you don’t often meet a poet who doesn’t have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they’re afraid of being seen as light versifiers. (Poems Quotes) I’ve already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. (Poems Quotes) I love my funny poems, but I’d rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that’s the best. (Poems Quotes) For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything. (Poems Quotes) Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man’s or woman’s, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.) (Poems Quotes) I don’t think I’d ever get any better as a poet if I didn’t push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I’m stubborn. (Poems Quotes) Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. (Poems Quotes)

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