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I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.

Read Poem Laugh Cry
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A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

Poetess Died Young Cancer
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Nice Lapdogs Poems Embracing
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences

Anywhere Art Been Beyond
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

Becoming Each Extensions Laws
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Actual Besides Class Differs
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.

Beginning Bits And Pieces Dozens Every
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

Memory Nuns Poems Problems
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

Language Music Necessity Never
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Memorize Poems Poetry Quite
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Child Earth Knows Like
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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Come Emotional Emotional Experiences Experiences
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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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I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.

Am Best Genius I Am
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Different Each Others Part
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Adolescence Come Criticism Even
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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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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

Always Both Career Genres
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music.. some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

Addicted Gigantic Small work Poem
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Hard I Write Indian Long
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

About Alone Early Nights
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What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
Ashamed Beyond Feel Poems
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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

After Bored Boring Drawer
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Bread Butter Favorite May
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Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

Today Poems Iron Poet
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It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will.

Enough Poem Beautiful Affecting
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When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

About Based Film Film School
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Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

Writing poems Celebrating The world Committed suicide
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

A case Poems changed The world People's understanding
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Write Poems Poets Words
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Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

Writers Care Sensibility Poems
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I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

Learn Poems Read People
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