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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Guest

Language

Poems

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

Laurence Housman

Poems

World

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

John C. Hawkes

Poems

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Marilyn Hacker

Poems

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock. Most of his poetry is sexual, even pornographic.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

Thom Gunn

Poems

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

Thom Gunn

Poems

Reading

When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Thom Gunn

Poems

Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.