#poems

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. ↗

— John Barton

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To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. ↗

— John Barton

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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. ↗

— Irving Layton

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But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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People can put their best poems straight onto the web. ↗

— Roger McGough

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Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. ↗

— Story Musgrave

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Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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