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My wife says "remind me to write a poem about what is a penumbra" |
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| Marilyn Hacker |
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. |
| Lou Holtz |
We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.' |
| Mahmoud Darwish |
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol. |
| M. H. Abrams |
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. |
| Deb Caletti |
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write. |
| Julia Cameron |
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay. |
| Carl Sandburg |
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. |
| Charles Bukowski |
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. |
| Derek Jacobi |
Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. |
| Eduardo Galeano |
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' |
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