#poems

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#accepted #aware #been #being #editors

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#been #chair #discoveries #easy #farther

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#descriptive #each #fixed #individual #lyric

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. ↗

— Gregory Harrison

#converted #guitar #had #i #learned

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#carry #filled #german #i #me

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#books #brother #could #faster #i

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#fairy #fairy tales #followed #i #novels

Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#heart #life #limits #nationality #outpouring

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#between #cross #dylan #dylan thomas #earlier

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#i #poems #time #washing #writing