#poem

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

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Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

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With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#autonomy #effect #find #investigation #issue

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

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My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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Just know I am Not there to catch you But I am there for you ↗

— Caleb Warta

#humor #life #life-lessons #poem #poetry

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#heart #life #limits #nationality #outpouring

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. ↗

— Aberjhani

#creativity #literature #national-poetry-month #poem-in-your-pocket-day #poetry