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What I want to know is how you go on when you look aroundand don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson
Girls like poems better than dead dragons and magic swords,
— Peter S. Beagle
Love and memory and thought and dream ~My favorite poems have never been written in words. — Kij Johnson
all my lifei have looked for poems
to elope with. — Sanober Khan
I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.
— Ishmael Reed
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
moonlight disappears down the hillsmountains vanish into fog
and i vanish into poetry. — Sanober Khan
I don't know why I didn't carry around pictures and poems all the time before I came here.
— Ally Condie
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.
— Edward Hirsch
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
— Billy Graham
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
— John Dryden
It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
— Donald Hall
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
There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.
— Roberto Bolano
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper.
And sometimes gold can stay. — Kami Garcia
Some poems are like the Centaursa mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
— Sylvia Plath
Careful.The fall is quick,
steep,
and permanent. — Jessica Kristie
I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.
— Edward Hirsch
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
— Simon Armitage
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
— Octavio Paz
I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.
— Kevin Powers
...you hold a poemthat functions half as personal
note and half as telescope
to the heights
awaiting us all. — Kristen Henderson
She blushed and I smiled when we saw the Magpie look at us while we kissed below the Acacia tree!
— Avijeet Das
Sometimes the rainfalls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song. — Sanober Khan
There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.
— Cate Marvin
I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.
— Jennette McCurdy
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
— Andrew Motion
Bill Knott's poems are ... rhetorical fluff ... and fake.
— Ron Loewinsohn
You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens to us.
— Kate Bernheimer
Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.
— Niki De St. Phalle
Poems ... are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped - what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again,
— Jane Hirshfield
Break my heart and you will find yourself inside.
— Atticus Poetry
And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
— Dejan Stojanovic
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.
— Horace
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.
— Denise Duhamel
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.
— Germaine Greer
I tell it stories now and thenand feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they're money. — Anne Sexton
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
— Natalie Goldberg
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
— Robert Penn Warren
I sent my words out onto the windto paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson
I feel your words on my lipsand feel your mood in my hips — Maquita Donyel Irvin
I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
— Mary Oliver
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.
— Patti Smith
some winterswill never melt
some summers
will never freeze
and some things will only
... live in poems. — Sanober Khan
Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.
— Pietros Maneos
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
— Emily Dickinson
I mean you ask menot to fall in love with you
and then you go write poems
with your tongue
and draw constellations
in my freckles. — Clementine Von Radics
There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
— Irving Layton
I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.
— Haley Pullos
Mary Oliver: "...Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ("The Summer Day", New and Selected Poems, 1992)
— Bonnie Zieman
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.
— John Barton
The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine.
— Jenim Dibie
We are made of all those who have built and broken us.
— Atticus Poetry
So many poems you go into and come up empty.
— Maxine Kumin
I believe in family values and following your dreams.
— JoAnne Myers
They are both spectacular, Life and death. — Dejan Stojanovic
The poems and stories we shared with each other could mean what we wanted them to mean. We could choose our own path together.
— Ally Condie
The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous.
— Eileen Myles
Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.
— Charles Ghigna
