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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
The best poems come from the world, go through the poet, and go back in to the world.
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class.
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Love, like poems, knows no boundaries. Religions, race, distance not even age can restrict someone from falling in love.
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.
I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need more and more of that.
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.
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad stories and poems as you do at the age.
My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.
I have these rhyme-based ideas because I love Julia Donaldson. 'The Snail and the Whale' is one of the most beautiful poems, and I feel like I could do that.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.
If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
You can make poems out of anger as well as tenderness. You can make poetry out of anything. It can be the ugliest of emotions. It doesn't have to be sweetness and light.
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.
When I ventured into writing at the age of 17, I wanted to be a good and successful writer. I just wanted to write good stuff - poems, prose, stories, essays, everything.
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
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.