Quotes of: Poem Keyword

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

The Waste Land and Other Poems

You'd be surprised how many childhoods each of us has.

Wise Poison: Poems

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

The Waves

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Andrew Motion

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.

Irving Layton

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

Stanley Kunitz

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

there is a poem color on her lips a soft touch by nature thrust by RAIN

lity munshi

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Robert Penn Warren

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

Robert Penn Warren

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

John Barton

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Brian Ferneyhough

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.

Groucho Marx

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Douglas Dunn

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

Jackie Evancho

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

John C. Hawkes

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

Rita Dove

Algren: How's your poem coming? Katsumoto: The end is proving difficult.

The Last Samurai

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Giles Foden