Anyone who has grown up in a culture and listened to its rhymes and sung its songs and listened to its speech knows how to write poetry.

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"Now I write stories and poetry as a way of using my creativity, " he said.

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He was destined, he believed, to write a new poetry fit for forward-looking times: an age of streetcars, jazz and heroic engineering.

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Would being a father mean I would have to abandon my writing, or could I, like many of my white friends and teachers who were writers, simply depend on my wife to support me and our child while I continued to write novels and poetry?

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The conductor also received more than a dozen honorary doctorates, was honored in countries from Finland to Japan, and managed to write two books of poetry.

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Their father, Patrick, was the first member of the family to be published, having lifted himself from an illiterate Irish family to attend Cambridge University and write several volumes of poetry.

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They write a line of poetry.

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Just go ahead and write a poem out of whatever idea of poetry you already have.

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The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Historic Scotland commissioned ten Scottish poets to write new works about the famous site and the surrounding landscape in partnership with Creative Scotland and the Scottish Poetry Library.

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