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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
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative
— Jay Woodman
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
— Robert Frost
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
— Paul Auster
A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.
— Charles Olson
Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.
— Kingsley Amis
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
— Robert Morgan
The world is a great poem, and the world'sThe words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts. — Philip James Bailey
I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
— Stanislaw Lem
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
— George Orwell
To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
They shut me up in Prose - / As when a little Girl / They put me in the Closet - / Because they liked me "still" -
— Emily Dickinson
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
People or starsRegard me sadly, I disappoint them.
From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963 — Sylvia Plath
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Ms. Whitlock is lost in her own world as she continues babbling about poem interpretations and people who died too long ago.
— Katie McGarry
Whoever challenges freaks should noticethat in the method he does not mature into a beast. — Santosh Kalwar
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language ... it's language as play.
— Carol Ann Duffy
The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed as a burden, but lived as a poem.
— Steve Maraboli
Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't.
— Sylvia Plath
Love is a snowflake for no two are ever the same.
— Kamand Kojouri
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
— May Sarton
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.
— Walter J. Phillips
A poem is a spider webSpun with words of wonder,
Woven lace held in place
By whispers made of thunder. — Charles Ghigna
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.
— Marilyn Hacker
Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.
— Drew Myron
There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.
— Michael Meade
A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.
— Edward Hirsch
I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
— X.J. Kennedy
If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever...
— Nick Armbrister
A poem begins as a lump in the throat? Gamache asked Ruth. The elderly woman held his eyes
— Louise Penny
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.
— Nicholson Baker
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
— Carol Ann Duffy
For you are abstract,making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle
I feel most at home when I am writing a poem - because in that instant, I am everywhere.
— Nathalie Handal
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
The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.
— Roger McGough
if you're going to use the word 'dream' in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.
— Jewelle L. Gomez
The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
— Jonathan Galassi
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.
— Edgar Allan Poe
You rewrote the art in my heart.
— Timothy Joshua
You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in.
— Kamand Kojouri
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
SHE Is A Wonderful Romantic Poem With Billions of Lines. Even If I Could, I Wouldn't Finish Reading HER In My Entire Life ...
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
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
A poem begins with a lump in the throat
— Robert Frost
In times of need I call unto you Abba Father and you answer.
— Euginia Herlihy
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri
A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
— Stephen Dobyns
I feel no grief for being called somethingwhich
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
— C.S. Lewis
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.
— Maxine Kumin
she is the poem that lives on his pages, burning in his hands, becoming beats all over his skin.
— Gwen Calvo
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
There's a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.
— Laura A. Lord
A poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.
— Gwen Harwood
A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.
— Marianne Boruch
A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.
— Taylor Mali
I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri
Death stoops over me.I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer
Knowing you, I understood myself.
— Kamand Kojouri
Being an American in Australia isn't easy,but I'm trying to integrate, I'm trying to fit in. — Billy Marshall Stoneking
We all live but a hundred years. When I am with you, I live it in a matter of days. — Kamand Kojouri
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance
— Philip Larkin
The moon is a poem in a starry night.
— Debasish Mridha
We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms.
— Kevin Fuller
I didn't mean to write this as a poem, but the meter turned up in my head and after that I simply had no say in the matter.
— Neil Gaiman
Going down in history is a dead end pursuit
— Benny Bellamacina
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
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
— Wilfred Owen
And for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.
— Stephen Chbosky
That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
— Andrea Gibson
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
— Marianne Moore
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up thepoet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay