#poe

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#barely #england #frost #i #known

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #been #every #film-makers #francisco

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#break #forms #gave #great #high

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#between #clear #delight #different #excitement

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#alone #early #i #nights #poems

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#back #being #everything #i #i always

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#boredom #creation #day #god #great

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#book #books #got #i #many

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#being #creature #force #into #itself