Good Poem Quotes: top 46 famous quotes about Good Poem

Good Poem Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Good Poem quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux

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

When the petals fall
Say it is beautiful and good, say it is well — May Sarton

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

I've made a lot of choices, some good, some not so good; how sad for those who merely hitchhike along, never daring to choose at all. — C.J. Heck

A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers
You'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 something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

Good Poem

Sit,
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

A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart. — Debasish Mridha

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

Words are fossilized butterfly wings,
pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums. — Jeremiah Walton

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one - and the same goes for paintings. — Elizabeth Bishop