#poems

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#brooks #corner #editors #i #later

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#guess #i #i write #love #much

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#book #everyone #going #novel #poems

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems! ↗

— Andy Richter

#emily #i #know #poems

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. ↗

— Philip Levine

#always #am #because #grew #i

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #poems #want #write

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. ↗

— Peter Porter

#each #illustrations #in other words #kind #only

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. ↗

— George Murray

#composing #develop #fragmented #hunter #i

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. ↗

— Paul Celan

#basic #between #cannot #difference #hands

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. ↗

— Joan Miro

#colors #i #like #music #notes