Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Meinke

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Peter Meinke.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Peter Meinke is an American poet and author. He has published 18 books of poems and short stories. The Piano Tuner, won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His poetry has received many awards, including two NEA Fellowships and three prizes from the Poetry Society of America. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Kalliope, A journal of women's art and literature and other magazines.

American - Poet | Born: 1932

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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

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

Peter Meinke

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

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

Peter Meinke

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Meinke

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