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“I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.”

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Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.”

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Author:Christina Perri

“Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.”

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Author:Chrisette Michele

“You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.”

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Author:Vikram Seth

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

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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

“Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.”

Writing Attention Prove Pay Attention Writing Poetry

Author:Mark Strand