#poems

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#guess #i #indeed #many #often

Through the darkest hours of the night and through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry sky and beyond galaxies I am free. Through the grimmest memories and past a seasons air I cannot breathe, Far beyond this mortal world in an afterlife we shall meet. ↗

— Lee Argus

#death-note #faith #friendship #love #poem

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions. ↗

— Mark Strand

#many #much #number #people #poems

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#before #began #bookstore #came #composing

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

— Thom Gunn

#collected #contains #ginsberg #making #neal

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

— Thom Gunn

#into #our #poems #put #reading

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

#accepted #aware #been #being #editors

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

— Gregory Harrison

#converted #guitar #had #i #learned

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

— John C. Hawkes

#carry #filled #german #i #me

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#between #cross #dylan #dylan thomas #earlier