Category: poet
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I consider myself kind of a reporter – one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
Mary Oliver
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there’s an ongoing evolution of clarity.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
Maya Angelou
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I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
Maya Angelou
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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But how carve way i’ the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Robert Browning
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Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.
Alexander Pope
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
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The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou