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I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well Picture Quote #1

Even though we’ve written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don’t think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything Picture Quote #1

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting Picture Quote #1

Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have Picture Quote #1

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

Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call dismantling delusion. I think that after I dismantle my female body, I can finally dismantle established lyric poems Picture Quote #1

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It seems like I’ve been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot! Picture Quote #1

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn’t find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write Picture Quote #1

I don’t see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I’ve often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don’t see that much difference between art and poetry Picture Quote #1

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there’s been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos 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

The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania Picture Quote #1

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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both Picture Quote #1

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn’t write a good poem... And then it actually wasn’t so bad Picture Quote #1

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard 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

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now Picture Quote #1

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it’s different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me Picture Quote #1

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There’s nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German Picture Quote #1

When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they’re talking about, I get it right away Picture Quote #1

I work on words quite separately to music. They’re both ongoing, and I don’t ever feel like I’m working in a cycle in that respect, because it’s every day anyway, no matter what I’m doing. Then I get to a point when I’ve collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not Picture Quote #1

I’ve written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places Picture Quote #1

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends Picture Quote #1

Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great poems for years, but there aren’t a lot of good comics. I like trying to write them Picture Quote #1

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It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write Picture Quote #1

He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme Picture Quote #1

I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn’t pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too Picture Quote #1

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers Picture Quote #1

I’ve always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I’ve been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what’s in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines Picture Quote #1

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart Picture Quote #1

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I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well. (Poems Quotes) Even though we’ve written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don’t think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything. (Poems Quotes) To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. (Poems Quotes) Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. (Poems Quotes) I really just love reading. It’s my favorite thing, performing my poems live. (Poems Quotes) Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call dismantling delusion. I think that after I dismantle my female body, I can finally dismantle established lyric poems. (Poems Quotes) It seems like I’ve been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot! (Poems Quotes) Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn’t find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write. (Poems Quotes) I don’t see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I’ve often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don’t see that much difference between art and poetry. (Poems Quotes) Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there’s been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. (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) The founding father of Albanian literature is the nineteenth-century writer Naim Frasheri. Without having the greatness of Dante or Shakespeare, he is nonetheless the founder, the emblematic character. He wrote long epic poems, as well as lyrical poetry, to awaken the national consciousness of Albania. (Poems Quotes) But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it’s no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. (Poems Quotes) I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn’t write a good poem... And then it actually wasn’t so bad. (Poems Quotes) The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard. (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) Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now. (Poems Quotes) Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it’s different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me. (Poems Quotes) There’s nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German. (Poems Quotes) When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they’re talking about, I get it right away. (Poems Quotes) I work on words quite separately to music. They’re both ongoing, and I don’t ever feel like I’m working in a cycle in that respect, because it’s every day anyway, no matter what I’m doing. Then I get to a point when I’ve collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not. (Poems Quotes) I’ve written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places. (Poems Quotes) Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. (Poems Quotes) Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great poems for years, but there aren’t a lot of good comics. I like trying to write them. (Poems Quotes) It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write. (Poems Quotes) He’s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme. (Poems Quotes) I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn’t pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too. (Poems Quotes) ... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. (Poems Quotes) I’ve always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I’ve been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what’s in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines. (Poems Quotes) In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. (Poems Quotes)

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