#poems

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. ↗

— Richard Eberhart

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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ↗

— John Fowles

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When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems. ↗

— James Franco

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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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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good

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

— Roger McGough

#onto #people #poems #put #straight

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#form #i #i love #ideal #love

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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

— Robert Morgan

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