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I love being able to see an un-written future.


Michael Jones


#michael-jones #poems #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.


Robert Fitzgerald


#course #i #just #know #making

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.


E. M. Forster


#else #hangs #information #itself #nothing

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'


Calvin Trillin


#every #how #i #know #monday

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.


Robert Penn Warren


#capacity #end #in the end #life #light

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.


James Welch


#dixon #fluke #issue #new #new yorker

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.


Walt Whitman


#great #poem #shall #very #your

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.


Walt Whitman


#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.


Virginia Woolf


#guess #i #many #often #poems

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.


Virginia Woolf


#guess #i #indeed #many #often






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