Quotes of: Poem Keyword

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Anne Stevenson

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

Carl Sandburg

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

C. K. Williams

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

Hu Shih

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.

James Broughton

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Mark Strand

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Philip Levine

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

Paul Muldoon

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

Robert Littell

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

Robert Morgan

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Seamus Heaney

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Joan Miro

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

Andrew Motion

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Andrew Motion

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Allen Tate

Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem.

Life

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

The Complete English Poems

Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.

Come Be With Me: A Collection of Poems

Sarei forse più sola senza la mia solitudine. Sono abituata al mio destino.

The Complete Poems

Memory is this, not the target dead on center but the hurt unwept.

A Bruise Of Ashes: Collected Poems