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“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”

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Author:John Fowles

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

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Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.”

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Book:Windows that open inward: images of Chile

Source: Windows that open inward: images of Chile

“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”

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Author:Sylvia Plath

“Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.”

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Author:Walter Pater

“Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.”

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Author:Paul Gauguin

“The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.”

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Author:Janet Fitch

“Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.”

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Author:Stanley Kunitz

“He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.”

Writing Age Poetry Names Poet Sacred

Book:Poems

Source: Poems