#poem

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#creative #each #fictional #i #irritant

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#form #just #language #less #more

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#had #i #plays #poems #started

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#began #british #entering #felt #first

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#i #i am #naked #people #people say

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