poetry

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There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Philip Levine
poetry

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Paul Muldoon
poetry

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Charles Olson
poetry

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Charles Simic
poetry

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

Thomas Harrison
poetry

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

James Schuyler
poetry

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Robert Penn Warren
poetry

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

Richard Rosen
poetry

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic
poetry

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor
poetry

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