“Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.” NeedsTwoHappensDarkRoomsPoetLowsWindowBeerRanProseSunlightInnsHazeDark Room Author:R. S. Thomas
“With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.” MadeSelfHandsPoetryPoetRainWindowCursePensDisciple Author:Anne Sexton
“I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.” WritingSleepCreativeCarPoetGrewDadGrew UpCatWindowMy DadNovelistsHighwaysCreative WritingWrecksSleeping InApprenticeshipCar Wreck Author:Lucinda Williams
“I once gave a workshop and I asked the women poets there, If you went back to that little town you've come from - these were from small towns - would you say, I'm a poet? And one of them said, If I said I was a poet in that town, they'd think I didn't wash my windows. And that stayed with me for so long, the sense of the collective responsibility of someone as against the individual thing it takes to be a poet.” IfsThinkingLittlesLongSaidIndividualResponsibilityPoetWindowTownsCollectivesSmall TownWorkshopsLittle TownsCollective Responsibility Author:Eavan Boland