Quotes of: Poem Keyword

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Philip Larkin

depth and substance. the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poem or a person.

Sanober Khan

Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world.

Sanober Khan

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much for a poem?

Shannon Lynette

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

Sharon Olds

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range

Mpho Leteng

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

Michael Ondaatje

Love is a song, written in your heart. The moon is a poem in a starry night.

Debasish Mridha

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.

Where the Wasteland Ends

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

Amy Bloom

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).

James Schuyler

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Anne Stevenson

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Wallace Stevens

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Carol Ann Duffy

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

John Ashbery

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Derek Walcott

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

George Murray

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

Helen Dunmore