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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
-Nikki Giovanni
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The Poet Can Only Write The Poems;

Nikki Giovanni
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
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It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. all i can say is that i have always written poems. i don't think i'm interested in any discussion about whether i'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. but i am sure, i want to write great poems. i think every poet should want that.
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Robert frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only attic but laconic, boeotian even - "at least not systematic"; but how systematically frostian the worst of his later poems are! his good poems are the best refutation of, the most damning comment on, his bad: his complete poems have the air of being able to educate any faithful reader into tearing out a third of the pages, reading a third, and practically wearing out the rest.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. no reality fits an ideology. life is beyond that. that is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. but life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.
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My best songs were written very quickly. just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...in writing songs i've learned as much from cezanne as i have from woody guthrie...it's not me, it's the songs. i'm just the postman, i deliver the songs...i consider myself a poet first and a musician second. i live like a poet and i'll die like a poet.
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We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. it is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.
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There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "tell me how to become a poet. tell me what to do." . . . what makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. when all these things come together, you're a poet. but there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. there isn't any formula for it.
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