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“My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.”
Groucho Marx
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first”
Mark Twain
“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.”
Carl Sandburg
“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word”
Mata Hari
“It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.”
Natalie Goldberg
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
Walt Whitman
“Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes... That's the Irish for you!”
Irish Sayings
“We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words”
John Fowles
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