#poems

What you gain here, you lose on the other side. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Creating means living. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I travel, always arriving in the same place. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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In a myriad of ways you tell one truth. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. ↗

— David Antin

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I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker. ↗

— David Antin

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The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. ↗

— David Antin

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It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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