Quotes of: Poem Keyword

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

Helen Vendler

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

John Barton

Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.

Harley King

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

Dana Goodyear

Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.

James Fenton

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

Howard Nemerov

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins ...

Trees & Other Poems

I love flowers for being flowers, directly. And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Collected Poems in English and French

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death

Complete Poems and Selected Letters

But glad to have sat under Thunder and rain with you, And grateful too For sunlight on the garden.

Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.

Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected

Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm that drums like a heartbeat.

Choosing Up Sides

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

Death and Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997

I won't sleep if that's what it takes to not wake up as myself

Hold Me Under: Poems to Drown to

To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.

Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life

coming down with something going away with nothing

a book of poems so small I cannot taste them

Love's the son stood stammering elocution while the poor ship in flames went down

The Complete Poems, 1927-1979

love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark

Complete Poems, 1904-1962

Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum of technology, and can be published, in most cases, quite cheaply.

James Fenton