#poem

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. ↗

— Peter Davison

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I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day. ↗

— Rita Dove

#according #color #day #drafts #each

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. ↗

— Rita Dove

#enjoy #i #i love #lots #love

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. ↗

— David Duchovny

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I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#am #asked #i #i am #pleased

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#be grateful #civil #coming #event #felt

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

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