Writing Poems Quotes

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  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Valentines Day, Cute Boyfriend

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentine

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Hands, Washing

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• A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.

  Matthea Harvey

  Writing, Ideas, People

  "'All of these things are poetry.'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. August 21, 2014.

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• I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

  Simone Muench

  Writing, Form

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.

  May Sarton

  Country, Writing, Wonder

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• I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Writing, Absurdity

  Wislawa Szymborska, “Possibilities”

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• But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Letters, Seems

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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• She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Weight, Spinsters

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether it's a narrative memoir, blogging for The Huffington Post, writing poems, or talking on the screen about what has happened to me and how that relates to the world at large.

  Staceyann Chin

  Writing, Talking, Trying

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Bored, Effort

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Father, Writing, Normal

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. February 16, 2005.

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• He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from getting his first period. He wrote poems too. It's my personal belief that if men are writing poems, they're making up for something else like a big hair back, or one ball. Not that one ball is a bad thing. Especially since I don't know any females who are dying to their their hands on a set of balls. The way I see it, the less balls, the better.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Writing

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• I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and I thought, "I wonder why these images are abrading against each other. I wonder what happens if put them in a poem and explore them." I'm trying to learn something every time I write a poem.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Discovery, Mind

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Too Late, Letters

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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• I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

  Tom Courtenay

  Religious, Writing, Legs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncé and Lady Gaga after they did the collaboration for "Telephone." I just kind of kept going. That was quite a while ago - Beyoncé meant something very different then than she does now.

  Morgan Parker

  Writing, School, Voice

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Writing, Kind, Abandonment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very much affected by what was going on in the world, which was, in succession, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the women's movement in the 60s, 70s, and into the early 80s. And all of those things affected me and affected my thinking, particularly the Vietnam War.

  Robert Hass

  War, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Writing, Use, World

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Mind, Of My Mind

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

  John Dufresne

  Notebook, Hero, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And sometimes with poems made from scratch. They aren't all bad, these words. But they aren't all good either. And that is where Mother was a Tragic Girl gets its power. You will at moments be laughing but then you will also at moments just as much be crying. If Antigone was alive and decided to write some poems about the nuclear family, she would write them like Sandra Simonds. These are tough.

  Juliana Spahr

  Girl, Mother, Writing

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