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“Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.”

Inspirational Heart Home Wanted Lasts Poetry Night Saws Moon Sitting Fingers Heavy Ghost Chests Pointing Last Night Bicycle Glowing Baskets Pointing Fingers

Author:Andrea Gibson

“I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.”

Writing Wanted Poetry

Author:Maxine Kumin

“After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.”

World Mean Ends Wanted Poetry Creation Poet Reader Criticism Critics Everyday Determine Prose Interpreter

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself.”

Philosophy Wanted Poetry Religion Order Rooms Morality Misunderstood

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

Enough Wanted Poetry Blanket Needles Firefighter

Book:Selected Poems, 1963-1983

Source: Selected Poems, 1963-1983

“I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.”

Wanted Poetry Lines Pure Rain Awkward Orchestra Hollow Reeds

Book:Fugitive Pieces

Source: Fugitive Pieces