Quotes of: Poem Keyword

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

David Whyte

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

Carol Ann Duffy

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

Jane Campion

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

Billy Sherwood

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Gore Vidal

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

Jennette McCurdy

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

C. K. Williams

I've always thought my poems told stories.

Douglas Dunn

Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after

Janet Fitch

Why is the poem called 'The Road Not Taken,' when it's about the road that was taken?

John Alejandro King

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

Sherman Alexie

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Anne Stevenson

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Marilyn Hacker

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

Robert Morgan

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

Stan Brakhage

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.

Roger McGough

If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there.

Love

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Wallace Stevens

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

The Complete English Poems

Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.

The Complete Poems