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A guilty conscience never feels secure. — Publilius Syrus

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. — Agona Apell

I was born doing reference work in sin, and born
confessing it. This is what poems are. — Anne Sexton

I talk nonsense at times, because sense is monotonous. — Anonymous

Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization. — Wallace Stegner

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church. — Peter Mullan

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems. — Cate Marvin

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work. — Joy Harjo

To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue. — William Shakespeare

Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show. — Lord Chesterfield

You fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought ... — John Geddes

She needs me for my strength, not my worry. — Drew Barrymore

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself. — Joe Sacco

America is a young country with an old mentality. — George Santayana

No Eden valid without serpent. — Wallace Stegner

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender. — Marvin Bell

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well. — Martin Luther

I need to work on me.
The me
without you. — Jessica Kristie

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out." — Denise Duhamel

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. — Benjamin Franklin

Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working. — Jane Hirshfield

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it. — Mel Ott

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem. — Howard Nemerov

I've never considered myself a lyricist, but I have stuff to say. — Brendon Urie