Peter Meinke Quotes

• If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.

  Peter Meinke

  Writing, Long, Chance

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• Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

  Peter Meinke

  Jobs, Shapes, Poet

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• The trick is, to treat your days as if each one may be your last.

  Peter Meinke

  May, Lasts, Treats

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• I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young.

  Peter Meinke

  Song, Stars, Moon

  Peter Meinke (1991). “Liquid paper: new and selected poems”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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