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Life In Poems Quotes

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box Picture Quote #1

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we’re not located in his actual life. We’re located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life Picture Quote #1

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don’t say what I want them to say. And that’s true of the persona in the poem who’s lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it’s also true of me as me Picture Quote #1

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good Picture Quote #1

A writer’s work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story Picture Quote #1

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They’re short, they’re intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article Picture Quote #1

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I’ve written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places Picture Quote #1

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem Picture Quote #1

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems Picture Quote #1

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work Picture Quote #1

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems Picture Quote #1

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain Picture Quote #1

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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life Picture Quote #1

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough Picture Quote #1

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life Picture Quote #1

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I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box (Life In Poems Quotes) And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we’re not located in his actual life. We’re located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life (Life In Poems Quotes) There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don’t say what I want them to say. And that’s true of the persona in the poem who’s lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it’s also true of me as me (Life In Poems Quotes) God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good. (Life In Poems Quotes) A writer’s work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. (Life In Poems Quotes) In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They’re short, they’re intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. (Life In Poems Quotes) I’ve written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places. (Life In Poems Quotes) Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. (Life In Poems Quotes) Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems (Life In Poems Quotes) Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work (Life In Poems Quotes) The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems (Life In Poems Quotes) A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain (Life In Poems Quotes) How do poems grow? They grow out of your life (Life In Poems Quotes) Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough (Life In Poems Quotes) Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life (Life In Poems Quotes)