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Every single soul is a poem

Soul Poem
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A poem is a naked person, some people say I am a poet.

Poet Person Say Some
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Poem Dignity Learn Race
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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.

About Church First First Time
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When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

About Dictionary Everything Poem
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

Act Chance Disaster Discovery
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

Burning Other Past Poem
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Begin Fail Lie Poem
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Begins Delight Ends Poem
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Deserves Excitement Excites Need
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Ears Eyes Hear Our
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Nature Like Poem Often
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Any Call Exclude Mostly
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Birth Child Commanding Give
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If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

Read poem World Good one
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Bread Flour Goes Making
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
Heard Many Poem Thought
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I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

Day Drafts Go Guilt
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Discover Enjoy Lots Love
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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Am Excitement Fabric Governed
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A picture is a poem without words.

Picture Poem Words
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It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

Trying Poem Write Really
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you are every thing i want to write in a poem, like this when my heart will not hush a storm bounds in bloodlines with blue ink and in oxygen carrying natal scents of you

You are Every thing My heart Storm bounds
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Writing a poem involves serendipitous discovery.

Writing A poem Involves Serendipitous discovery
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A poem is more important than a poet.

A poem More important A poet
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One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

One Show Contempt Cruelty
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Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Rome Poem Service City
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Beautiful feeling After writing A poem Whole better
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When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done

Writing Poem Think World
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A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's poem with your extensions, your uniquely personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you.

Poem Thinking Person's Serve
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...there are times when silence is a poem.

Times Silence Poem
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