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• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays… plays in which I had the starring part.

  Francine Pascal

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• Poems were never meant to be forced into commands.

  Rachel Held Evans

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• I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration.

  Karen Russell

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• I grew up in a bookless house – my parents didn’t read poetry, so if I hadn’t had the chance to experience it at school I’d never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

  Carol Ann Duffy

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• I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

  George Murray

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• A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

  George Oppen

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• I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

  Billy Sherwood

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• In all the poems I’ve written I’ve not really engaged in politics, and when I’ve found myself moving in that direction I’ve always stopped myself.

  Simon Armitage

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• Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

  Thomas Lynch

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• If I were assigned poems I suppose I’d write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

  Thomas Lynch

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• I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

  Ringo Starr

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• I’m terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.

  Roger McGough

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• I’ve already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

  Story Musgrave

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• We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

  Thom Gunn

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• Many of my poems are not s*xual.

  Thom Gunn

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• Ginsberg’s Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

  Thom Gunn

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• I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of aFrench poet.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

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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.

  A. R. Ammons

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• 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

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• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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