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The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. ↗

— Edvard Munch

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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

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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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Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

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I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow. ↗

— Martin Gore

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They're only trees. Only trees. Whose afraid of lonely trees? ↗

— Ruth Frances Long

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He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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