#poems

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#his #i #love #particularly #poems

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#come #criticism #even #fall #love

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#collection #first #imprint #new #poems

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#call #exclude #managed #mostly #page

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. ↗

— Jane Campion

#doubts #full #keats #often #poems

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#instructions #like #many #poems #read

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#born #french #french language #guest #i

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#doing #english #experience #experienced #found

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#finds #happens #language #more #oneself

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#just #just one #life #little #look