#poems

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. ↗

— John Barton

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To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. ↗

— John Barton

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In greatness, life and death merge. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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