#poem

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. ↗

— Charles Olson

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You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. ↗

— Charles Olson

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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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