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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. — Rita Dove

I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness. — David Mitchell

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. — May Sarton

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. — Howard Nemerov

Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you. — Avijeet Das

Each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature. — May Sarton

these days of exotic splendour may stand out
in each lifetime like marble
mileposts in an alluvial land — W. H. Auden

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness. — Kahlil Gibran

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter. — Louisa May Alcott

When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach. — May Sarton

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. — Joseph Stalin

It's false advertising to call Mrs. Obama the First Lady. First Woman, maybe, but certainly not a lady. Ann Romney is an actual lady. — Mitt Romney

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal. — May Sarton

Your poems will happen when no one is there. — May Sarton

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. — May Sarton

This world-
To what may I liken it?
To autumn fields
lit dimly in the dusk
by lightning flashes. — Yu Minamoto

We are what we think, having become what we thought. — Mark Epstein

All things fell into the past but one; and what that was, was love. — Justin Cronin

I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something. — May Sarton

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good. — W. H. Auden

How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you. — Phar West Nagle

So special is God's love that love does not love those who are worthy of it but rather those who have special need of it. — Dean G. Stroud

You write poems
because you need
a place
where what isn't may be — Alejandra Pizarnik

New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems. — William Shakespeare

I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems. — Pattiann Rogers

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. — W. Somerset Maugham

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Except that only small people- the inside-small kind- don't like you to be big. — Jennifer Niven

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. — Albert Einstein

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts. — Confucius

It's ok to say you've got a weak spot,you don't always have to be on top.
Better to be hated then loved(x3) for what you're not. — Marina And The Diamonds