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Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair. — Robert Kennedy

I've been compared to Inspector Clouseau ... or has he been compared to me? — I.B. Nosey

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. — Eddie Shaw

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself. — Stephen Spender

You smell like a bar," he said.
I thought, You smell like a library. But I wanted to have sex right then, so I said, "You smell like a poem. — Melissa Bank

Whoever challenges freaks should notice
that in the method he does not mature into a beast. — Santosh Kalwar

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on. — Marshall McLuhan

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time. — Eileen Myles

I've tried
to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me. — Stephen Dunn

Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore. — Emma Ghent Curtis

It looked like a love poem, and I was jealous of whoever inspired the sort of devotion he must have felt to make those words so permanent — Tammara Webber

And he wrote the single most famous poem about the death camps, "Todesfuge" (Death Fugue). — Clive James

His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know. — Ally Condie

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them. — Jacob Bronowski

The worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter. — Charles Bukowski

At Delphi I prayed
to Apollo
that he maintain in me
the flame of the poem
and I drank of the brackish
spring there ... — Denise Levertov

The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. — Matsuo Basho

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. — Mark Strand

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. — G.K. Chesterton

God,
is there no faith left?
He has not told. I
would not know Him if I saw Him. — Beth Morey

It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality. — Victor Hugo

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone. — Simon Van Booy

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem. — Karen Joy Fowler

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

But he knew she was a star, and he, only human. He was never meant to reach the stars - he could only admire them from afar. — Timothy Joshua

Every poem can be considered in two ways
as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C.S. Lewis

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' — Cesare Lombroso

he was walking poetry, a walking poem — Bemy Wells

He should have told Vlad that in the old days a collection of poems could change your life, but a single poem could also cost the life of its author. — Andrei Makine

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. — Eyvind Johnson

Death stoops over me.
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer

She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable. — Deborah Levy

A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee. — Arianna Huffington

If Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off. — Vivian Vande Velde

He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce') — Carrie Etter

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back. — Carolyn Kizer

I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem. — Whitley Strieber

The enemy came to steal,kill and destroy our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that. — Euginia Herlihy

Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends? — Seamus Heaney

But ... that's absurd!' he cried, flushing. 'Your poem is in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him- as you meant it to be. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend. — Langston Hughes

He is exactly the poem I wanted to write. — Mary Oliver

Lucretius wants to write the poem of matter, but he warns us from the start that the reality of matter is that it's made of invisible particles. He — Italo Calvino

While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights) — S.J. Rozan

Lo! A call for a bloody trial-
Retribution should it hail!
Whose? you ask,
For he that deems it a worthy task! — Carol Robi

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it. — W. H. Auden

He was never a man of many words but the look that he gave me spoke volumes saying what he felt in his heart — Vivian E. Moore