My Child Poem Quotes: top 15 famous quotes about My Child Poem

My Child Poem Quotes & Sayings

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

Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Like young fern shoots
my child's fingers curled.
I did not expect,
in the fifth month, frost. — Lian Hearn

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem — Kahlil Gibran

Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse

I stand alone, a woman, a girl, and a child.
Unsuccessful at my first attempts of a poem
I am miserable when I fail. — Abigail George

Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
His only crime, to arrive deformed. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The only response
to a child's grave is
to lie down before it and play dead. — Bill Knott

From the beginning. I was a poem-writing child. I wrote little novels in my composition book when I was eight, nine years old. — Joan Larkin

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness. — George Steiner

Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ... — Muse

I have to find a place to hide
An island in the sea
Surrounded by a racing tide
Where I can live with me — Laurie Matthew

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. — Carl Sandburg

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. — James Fenton

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way in the world. — Dorianne Laux