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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

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Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

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Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. ↗

— Richard Eberhart

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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ↗

— John Fowles

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When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems. ↗

— James Franco

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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. ↗

— Robert Frost

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. ↗

— Robert Frost

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