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You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet; because poetry is beyond hooks and holes.
— M.F. Moonzajer
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
— Harold Bloom
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
— James Schuyler
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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
There should ne'er be a timeWhen a duty or dime
Doth outshine
The importance of family. — Richelle E. Goodrich
It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.
— Maggie Stiefvater
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
— Dejan Stojanovic
Read a nice poem or watch the sunrise, both are the same thing!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth.
— Marty Rubin
People or starsRegard me sadly, I disappoint them.
From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963 — Sylvia Plath
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
Change like a treeWhen it is winter
Don't complain or fear
Just wait for the spring
To bloom and sing — Debasish Mridha
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
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.
— William Carlos Williams
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
— Thomas Carlyle
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.
— Matthea Harvey
Every word I write is a seed that I may nurture into a small, beautiful poem or a tall, soaring tree.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.
— Peter Meinke
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
I am nobody, even if I say I am this or that.
— Santosh Kalwar
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
— Allen Tate
My cup is yellowOr not, though not's
Impossible
It's yellow — Aram Saroyan
Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it— Franz Wright
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
— Marguerite Duras
A poem, novel or play that does not in some sense relate to previous texts is, in fact, literally unimaginable.
— Andrew Bennett
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be a poem - could become a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other
("Poem") — Raymond Radiguet
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
— James Buchan
The Daniel, the third poem of the MS., is SO dull that it is no matter who wrote it or when it was written.
— Anonymous
Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.
— Norman Lock
As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
— Henry David Thoreau
To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art.
— Paul Valery
All erect dicks are bent. Or, if not all, then at least enough of them to be eulogized in a poem.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story.
— Lynn Cullen
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.
— Cornelius Eady
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire ... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
— Henry David Thoreau
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields ... it's more like a poem ... and that's what I want to paint.
— Joan Mitchell
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
— Alice Walker
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
A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably
there too, and bore witness as only rodents can. — John Ashbery
I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.
— Emily Susan Rapp
For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.
— Joan Miro
I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.
— James Arthur
hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match,we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard to catch.
— Ana Claudia Antunes
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
— Kenneth Rexroth
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
— Thomas Lynch
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
— David Whyte
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.
— Robert Bly
Monsieur, you must be mad!Box Five can never be had
For money, love or the world ... — E.A. Bucchianeri
A book, a poem, a play - they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers or an automobile tire.
— Arthur Miller
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
— Patti Smith
Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.
— Maya Angelou
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
— Michael Ondaatje
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
— Beeban Kidron
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 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
A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.
— Stephen Dobyns
May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being yours — Hasil Paudyal
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.
— Wilfred Owen
I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple--or a green field--a place to enter, and in which to feel.
— Mary Oliver
No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.
— Thomas Lux
When a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.
— Sybil Marshall
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
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
— Howard Nemerov
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
— Harold Bloom
In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.
— Mary Oliver
