#poems

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

— John Barton

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

— Michael Jones

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There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

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Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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

— John C. Hawkes

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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