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«In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.»
«In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.»
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
(Writer)
| About:
Poetry,
Poets,
Punishment,
Speech
| Keywords:
free speech, penalty, poems
«It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.»
Author: Natalie Goldberg
| Keywords:
along, matters, poems, process, sane, stories, The Process, to become
«I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.»
«In the phrases of songs and poems bread is gold, it is the motherland, it is the hard work of the masses, it is life itself.»
«Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
certainty, conviction, harsh, harsher, lends, poems, typed, typescript
«A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them. That is, he does not draw on a reservoir; instead, he engages in an activity that brings to him a whole succession of unforeseen stories, poems, essays, plays, laws, philosophies, religions . . .»
Author: William Stafford
| Keywords:
bring about, engages, essay, Essays, philosophies, poems, reservoir, reservoirs, succession, unforeseen
«It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my ''poems'' are competing.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
| Keywords:
acrobat, acrobats, competing, coney, Coney Island, electricity, island, July, July 4, locomotive, locomotives, mention, mice, Niagara, Niagara Falls, not to mention, poems
«He does not write at all whose poems no man reads»
«For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay»
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