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I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.


Robert Wells


#disgust #envy #life #pillar #poem

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.


Wole Soyinka


#condition #enlarged #enriches #horizon #human

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.


James Broughton


#itself #magic #me #out #poem

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.


James Broughton


#absolute necessity #allowing #earliest #happen #invade

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.


Marilyn Hacker


#down #experienced #healing #hope #i

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.


James Buchan


#contain #does #importance #information #like

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost


Kami Garcia


#lena #love #poem #beauty

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.


Gore Vidal


#bureaucrat #does #like #poem #something

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.


John Updike


#goes #man #middle-aged #middle-aged man #off

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.


Paul Valery


#abandoned #finished #never #only #poem






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