#poem

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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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. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

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I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. ↗

— James Broughton

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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. ↗

— James Broughton

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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. ↗

— Basil Bunting

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But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. ↗

— Jane Campion

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If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. ↗

— Jane Campion

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