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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
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
ROBERTO BOLANO

Fist Poem Recite Time
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
ADRIENNE RICH

Dream Know Like Poem Put
It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Change Made Poem Political Terrible Writing
This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Began Compositional Emulation Neighbourhood Old Poem Process Siqueiros
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
ADRIENNE RICH

Control Greed Little May Poem Power Technological
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion.
ADA LIMON

Deep Firefly Graceful Kid Moving Poem Precise Suoer
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. FORSTER

Else Hang Information Itself Nothing Poem Point Something Together True
I began writing early – very, very early… I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, ‘Now I’m a writer.’ I’ve always been a writer.
WOLE SOYINKA

Began Early Festival Poem Poetry Selling Short Story Very Writing
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
JOHN BERGER

Alive Cicadas Legend Poem Poet Quiet Soul
I probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINO

Every Fifty Poem Probably Writing Year
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
RAINER MARIA RILKE

Child Earth Know Like Poem Return Spring
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
JOHN BERGER

Apart Authentic Contribute Labor Poem Poetry Separate Together Violence
I wrote many poems about her and held her so close to my heart that she did not even knew a place there.
RAMESES

Close Heart Myself Place Poem Writing
There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
ADRIAN MATEJKA

Back Come Poem Way Written
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Hero Poem Rhyme Success
When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.
AJA MONET

Behalf God Poem Spend Time Woman Write Writing
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
CATULLUS

Chaste God Himself Poem Poet
We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
RICHARD WRIGHT

Basket Cloth Cotton Dance Folk Glass Iron Music Poem Smelted Spun Wool Work
Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.
AMA ATA AIDOO

Argument Poem Sometimes Trigger Word
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONG

Affair Before Marriage Night Novel One Poem Short Someone Stand Story
For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Escape Poem Quick Yourself
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart…
JOHN BERGER

Apart Authentic Bring Contribute Labor Life Loss Poem Poetry Space Together Violence
What’s astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter’s perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems.
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Ability Astonishing Combine Deep Knowledge Perspective Poem Poetry Refreshing Religion Reporter
In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.
ADAM NICOLSON

Contract Field Human Natural Poem Symbiosis Way
I’ve written poems about gifts.
AMA ATA AIDOO

Gift Poem Written

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