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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ↗

— Steven Wright

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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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Through the darkest hours of the night and through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry sky and beyond galaxies I am free. Through the grimmest memories and past a seasons air I cannot breathe, Far beyond this mortal world in an afterlife we shall meet. ↗

— Lee Argus

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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose. ↗

— Mark Strand

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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions. ↗

— Mark Strand

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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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