#poe

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. ↗

— Liam Neeson

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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

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The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite. ↗

— Willie Nelson

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I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on. ↗

— Corin Nemec

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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#because #i #last #line #much

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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