#poem

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

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Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

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With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

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I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

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My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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