How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.Robert Penn Warren
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
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The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
Robert Penn Warren
Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel.... not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, 'What do I really feel about this'
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What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.
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