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Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
— Erica Jong
The heart, I think, which is the home of all things rhythmic, is where learned poems go to live.
— Bill Richardson
Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create ... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?
— Ernst Haas
when I finally begin to driftinto sleep
your memory is the...first
and the moonlight
the last, to kiss my face. — Sanober Khan
all my lifei have looked for poems
to elope with. — Sanober Khan
Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by,That here, obedient to their laws, we lie Poems by Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC) — Ian S Varty
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
You are the poemthat sticks in my throat
teaching me to whisper
with the voice of my heart. — Jessica Kristie
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
— Randall Jarrell
I build boxesand place them at your feet,
to measure the distance
between dreams and reality. — Jessica Kristie
I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.
— Shannon L. Alder
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.
— Henri Cole
Reckless of my mortality,Strengthen me to behold a face,
To know the spirit of a beloved one
Yet to endure, yet to dare! — Edgar Lee Masters
Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.
— Nancy B. Brewer
Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.
— Wallace Stegner
I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.
— Alison Hawthorne Deming
Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.
— Anne Boleyn
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
— Richard Grossman
It is difficultto get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams
I guess I have no choice But to toss all novels under the rug
Nothing can compete with the poetry bug — Maddy Kobar
I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.
— Billy Collins
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
Literary' feelings are responses to poems, not just states of emotion which occur in their presence.
— Terry Eagleton
To truly understand poetry one must understand themselves from within one's self.
— Richard M. Knittle Jr.
He hoped she would not provide his family with any of her poems, which tended to use words like nipple.
— Jean Thompson
PeterSwirling dreams
Dragons knew
Touching life to win
Deep inside many other worlds
Where should we begin? — William O'Brien
Inside a home you left me, a blue orphanage. Inside a bluish mosaic, space to live. — Heng Siok Tian
Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.
— Kate Bernheimer
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
— Charles Olson
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
— Yehuda Amichai
It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.
— Margaret Atwood
My poems mean what people take them to mean.
— Paul Valery
The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink.
— Dorianne Laux
It is not given to each of usTo be desired. — Mina Loy
I can give myself to herIn her dreams
Whispering her own poems
In her ear as she sleeps beside me. — Akiko Yosano
And everyone wants to read the poem we're afraid to write. — Kelli Russell Agodon
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.
— Anna Kamienska
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.
— Bernardo Bertolucci
Sometimes the rainfalls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song. — Sanober Khan
My only wish is to be buried with my books.
— Nikita Dudani
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
She had just enough madness to make her interesting
— Atticus Poetry
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
— Laurence Housman
I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
— Mary Oliver
The world, finally, tries to rob us in lots of ways. I like poems to do a bit of taking back for us.
— Terry Blackhawk
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'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
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
— Emily Dickinson
Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.
— Rachel Zucker
I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
— Kangana Ranaut
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
— John Barton
Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.
— Doug Stanhope
My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.
— Wanda Lea Brayton
Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.
— Nikki Giovanni
THE RIGHTPOEM
FINDS
US
EXACTLY
WHEN IT
NEEDS TO.
- ATTICUS — Atticus Poetry
I was just an option.Blown easily to pieces
and offered to the sky
by the sweet laced pain
upon your lips. — Jessica Kristie
To write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
— Mary Oliver
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
— Virginia Woolf
The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
— Billy Collins
I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.
— Roberto Bolano
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
Watch carefullythe magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves. — Atticus Poetry
