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I used to only pick up a pen for myself but now I pick one up for you too. Is there such a thing as an unselfish love poem? I don’t know, but I’m trying.
NIKITA GILL

Love Myself Poem Poet Selfish Try Writing
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.
PAT CONROY

Along Beauty Book Born Movement Music Painting Poem Rhyme Sory Write
Early on, if I was alone two-three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.
JACK NICHOLSON

Alone Night Poem Suicide Writing
If this was my last poem I’d dedicate it to myself.
SHREYA JOSHI

Dedication Myself Poem Self Love
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSEN

Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
JACK LONDON

Better Goodness Joke Measurement Poem Quick
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
MATSUO BASHO

Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
SEAMUS HEANEY

Learning Poem Poetry Quite Student Workshop
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Poem Start Thinking World Writing
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
SEAMUS HEANEY

Intense Language Myself Poem Reading Talk Thinking
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven’t in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
KACEY MUSGRAVES

Ideas Myself Poem Writing Young
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOT

Carry Cipher Face My Poem Unwritten
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
MARTIAL

Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
The moment of change is the only poem.
ADRIENNE RICH

Change Healing Moment Poem Poetry
Write me as if I were already a poem. Pen the stanzas as if storms and ships could birth something sacred. Color it a religious experience.
HANNAH PEARL

Color Experience Poem Religious Sacred Storm Writing
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
ADRIENNE RICH

Burn Desire Kill Living might Poem Remind Revolutionary Theorize Wick
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDAL

Poem Police
It’s not songs that remind me of lost lovers. It’s poems.
MARIE-KRISTIN HOFMANN

Lost Lover Myself Poem Remind Song
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Art Defense Myself Poem Stand Support
Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEIN

Poem Time
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, ‘What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?’
BILLY COLLINS

Poem Real Thinking Writing
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
ROBERTO BOLANO

Fist Poem Recite Time
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
NADINE GORDIMER

Chapter Country Day Life Many One Poem September Story Sunny Thousand Transformation Two Work Writer Year
The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.
ALAN GREEN

Amazing Bible Book Church Erotic Hard Love Notice Poem Song Try Very
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
SEAMUS HEANEY

Oneself Poem Swift
There’s so much rage in the world now and I’m finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.
ADA LIMON

Finding Place Poem Rage World Writing
Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don’t start out – if the reader isn’t grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can’t be led astray or disoriented later.
BILLY COLLINS

Astray Beginning Clarity Disorientated Poem Reader

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