Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
Narrator: I wrote little haiku poems. I emailed them to everyone.
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.
I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak.
You are the poem that sticks in my throat teaching me to whisper with the voice of my heart.
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.
Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field There passes for a moment the figure of a man. His steps go with “him” in the same reality, But I look at him and them, and they’re two things: The “man” goes walking with his id...
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? — No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad...
sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going to die and you are going to die and the cats are going to die but it's still good to stretch out and know you have arms and feet and a head, hands, all the parts, even eyes to close once mor...
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread....
Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you with my singing, Without spilling your blood on the ground. Not touching you with my hand, Not giving you one glance, I will stop l...
i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday...
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give th...
