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The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems Picture Quote #1

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before Picture Quote #1

The poems to come are for you and for me and are not for most people... you and I are human beings; most people are snobs Picture Quote #1

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude Picture Quote #1

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems Picture Quote #1

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on Picture Quote #1

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Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization Picture Quote #1

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences Picture Quote #1

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children Picture Quote #1

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life Picture Quote #1

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs Picture Quote #1

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough Picture Quote #1

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again Picture Quote #1

I have been correcting the proofs of my poems. In the morning, after hard work, I took a comma out of one sentence... In the afternoon, I put it back again 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

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being Picture Quote #1

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition Picture Quote #1

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories Picture Quote #1

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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt Picture Quote #1

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy 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

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together Picture Quote #1

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other Picture Quote #1

Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems Picture Quote #1

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For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry Picture Quote #1

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay Picture Quote #1

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? Picture Quote #1

It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there Picture Quote #1

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship Picture Quote #1

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

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The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems (Poems Quotes) Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before (Poems Quotes) The poems to come are for you and for me and are not for most people... you and I are human beings; most people are snobs (Poems Quotes) What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude (Poems Quotes) Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems (Poems Quotes) Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on (Poems Quotes) Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization (Poems Quotes) I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences (Poems Quotes) All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children (Poems Quotes) You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life (Poems Quotes) The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs (Poems Quotes) We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough (Poems Quotes) I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again (Poems Quotes) I have been correcting the proofs of my poems. In the morning, after hard work, I took a comma out of one sentence... In the afternoon, I put it back again (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) My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being (Poems Quotes) Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition (Poems Quotes) Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories (Poems Quotes) Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt (Poems Quotes) I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy (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) Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together (Poems Quotes) As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other (Poems Quotes) Far off in the red mangroves an alligator has heaved himself onto a hummock of grass and lies there, studying his poems (Poems Quotes) For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry (Poems Quotes) Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay (Poems Quotes) If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? (Poems Quotes) It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there (Poems Quotes) Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be told that everything they have done since their first childhood poems, printed in the school paper, has been preparation for entering a long, long apprenticeship (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)

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