#poems

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. ↗

— John Barton

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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

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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

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For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative. ↗

— Peter Davison

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I like poems that are little games. ↗

— Peter Davison

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If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget. ↗

— Peter Davison

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

— Peter Davison

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I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. ↗

— Lena Dunham

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However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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I love being able to see an un-written future. ↗

— Michael Jones

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