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"We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words"
John Fowles, Novelist
"However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it"
James Schuyler, Poet
"Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket"
Charles Simic, Poet
"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life"
Robert Penn Warren, Novelist
"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote"
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet
"A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances"
Douglas Dunn, Poet
"A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties"
Anne Stevenson, Poet
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep"
Salman Rushdie, Novelist
"Every single soul is a poem"
Michael Franti, Musician
"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them"
Charles Simic, Poet
"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry"
Gustave Flaubert, Novelist
"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance"
John Keats, Poet
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason"
Novalis, Poet
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