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Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
— Erica Jong
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Few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.
— Stanley Kunitz
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.
— Ishmael Reed
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.
— Tracy K. Smith
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
— Randall Jarrell
I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.
— Matthew Zapruder
Don't worry - you see,
to some you are magic. — Atticus Poetry
This is what poems are:with mercy
for the greedy,
they are the tongue's wrangle,
the world's pottage, the rat's star. — Anne Sexton
my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words. — Sanober Khan
my poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of a
cage. — Charles Bukowski
Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.
— Lemony Snicket
Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;
— Walt Whitman
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.
— Matthea Harvey
Ye are better than all the balladsThat ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.
— Robert Graves
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
— Kahlil Gibran
Some poems are like the Centaursa mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself
— Philip Larkin
Who will read these poems when the people are gone?
— Dominic Owen Mallary
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...
— Muriel Rukeyser
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
— Jeanette Winterson
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.
— William H Gass
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
— David Whyte
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.
— David Whyte
Words are gifts that give to us all. Packaged songs and poems waiting to be unwrapped.
— Calvin W. Allison
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
— Seamus Heaney
Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.
— Stephen King
In Damascus:poems become diaphanous
They're neither sensual
nor intellectual
they are what echo says
to echo ... — Mahmoud Darwish
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
— Yehuda Amichai
There are no honest poems about dead women.
— Audre Lorde
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
— Lydia Davis
I like poems that are little games.
— Peter Davison
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
— Anna Kamienska
Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.
— Angela Thirkell
That's what poems are for,unlivable love. — Tess Gallagher
Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.
— Tracy K. Smith
words are a border collie's worst nightmare. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls
I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens to us.
— Kate Bernheimer
Bill Knott's poems are ... rhetorical fluff ... and fake.
— Ron Loewinsohn
Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.
— Matthea Harvey
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
— Edith Sitwell
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
— Albert Einstein
We are made of all those who have built and broken us.
— Atticus Poetry
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
— Germaine Greer
Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish.
— Nayyirah Waheed
What good are wings without the courage to fly?
— Atticus Poetry
There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.
— Dejan Stojanovic
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.
— Doug Stanhope
Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
— Nikki Giovanni
Poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed m
— William Shakespeare
Poems are crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality.
— Pierre Reverdy
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
— Hans Christian Andersen
There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.
— Edward Hirsch
Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.
— Sanober Khan
Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.
— David Mitchell
How are his poems?""He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. — Charles Bukowski
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.
— Luci Shaw
Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.
— Tadeusz Konwicki
poems are small moments of enlightenment
— Natalie Goldberg