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I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best. -- James Tate
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. -- Rita Dove
I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths. -- Shakira
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it. -- James Broughton
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't. -- Dylan Thomas
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. -- Harold Bloom
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. -- Robert Morgan
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form. -- Etgar Keret
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside. -- Jane Hirshfield
I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book. -- Fay Wray
I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious. -- James Tate
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear Emily - I hope I have understood.' Emily's poems are sometimes difficult, often abstract, on occasion flippant, but her mind is inside them. -- Helen Oyeyemi
I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well. -- Alice McDermott
Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while. -- James Fenton
For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
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
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language. -- Jessye Norman
That's what poems are for, unlivable love. -- Tess Gallagher
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. -- Carol Ann Duffy
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems -- Carol Ann Duffy
There are either poems about sex/love or God. -- Robert Hass
I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form. -- Simone Muench
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems. -- Antonio Gala
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. -- Eileen Myles
Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love. -- Richard Hugo
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them. -- Hans Christian Andersen
More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild -- Diane di Prima
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world. -- Matthea Harvey
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up. -- Peleg Top
The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen. -- M.F. Moonzajer
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. -- Hayden Carruth
I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me. -- Mary Ruefle
Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant. -- Daniel Handler
I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move. -- Rita Dove
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection. -- Irving Layton

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