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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it. ↗

— Philip Levine

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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

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If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem. ↗

— Philip Levine

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My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. ↗

— Philip Levine

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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ↗

— C. Day Lewis

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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

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But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. ↗

— John Millington Synge

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