#poems

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#forms #narrative #poems #poets #southern

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#best #books #carefully #included #mature

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#character #early #i #like #lot

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#century #known #long #lot #many

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. ↗

— Al Purdy

#either #poems #survival

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#letters #men #other #people #poems

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#being nice #between #cards #change #cute

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #could #going #guess #however

I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#big #brave #carry #emily #everywhere

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#feelings #hope #i #i do #ignore