Good Poem Quotes
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A good poem contains both meaning and music
— Eve Merriam
I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.
— Sylvia Plath
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.
— T. E. Hulme
One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible, speak a few reasonable words
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years
— Allen Ginsberg
I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.
— Alysia Harris
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
— Denise Levertov
The secret title of every good poem might be 'Tenderness
— Galway Kinnell
A poem is good until one knows by whom it is.
— Karl Kraus
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.
— J. David Gray
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
— Michel De Montaigne
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
— William Morris
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
— Hilary Mantel
Iron helmets will not save/Even heroes from the grave/
Good man's blood will drain away/
While the wickid win the day. — Heinrich Heine
A good poem about failure is a success.
— Philip Larkin
A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in an almost biological way.
— Michael Longley
You defy questions;You defy other godhood.
I walk dry on your kingdom's border,
Exiled to no good. — Sylvia Plath
A Very Short Poem for Poor LoversYou've got nothing,
I've got nothing,
And it's not a good thing. — Arzum Uzun
A well crafted life is like a good poem. What is left out tells others every bit as much about you as what is added in.
— Eric Vance Walton
A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.
— Rita Dove
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
— Jack London
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
— Theodore Roethke
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.
— James Turrell
It's a good poem if I'm a different person when I'm finished reading it.
— Brandon Stanton
I feel no grief for being called somethingwhich
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
Good PoemSit,
lay down,
roll over,
here's
your treat. — Kristen Henderson
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Damn, the good words are all asterisked!""The men only understand the asterisks. My worry is if they understand the rest! — Pawan Mishra
You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.
— Theodore Roethke
This separation happened for a reason, this esason is for our own good; God is just positioning us.
— Euginia Herlihy
The good things aren't a movie. There isn't enough to make a reel. The good things are a poem, barely longer than a haiku. There
— Cheryl Strayed
The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a good novel.
— Kathleen Rooney
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
— C. Day Lewis
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A really good poem is full of music.
— Eric Whitacre
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
— David Whyte
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.
— Robert Bly
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
— Kenneth Rexroth
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.
— James Dickey
