How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
Robert Penn Warren
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When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain. -
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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. -
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
More quotes by Robert Penn Warren
- The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
- How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
- The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.