poems
Example Sentences
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The poems remain resistant, as they must; but their resistance now carries the force of address, a bottle sent out from wreckage toward an unknown reader.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
“Nothing in the world,” he wrote that year, “could make a poet give up poetry, even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
“The thought that leads me to contemplate with dread the erasure of other voices, of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard — that thought is a nightmare,” she said.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
There’s documented marginalia and scribblings that suggest a serious reader, and anecdotes about her reciting poems at parties, reading Proust on set, and expounding on Whitman, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
“Yes, she did. And all the other poems in that volume, too.”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
