Quotes of: Poem Keyword

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

Rita Dove

she's got oceans tucked away in her hair poems swim under her skin.

Sanober Khan

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Spike Milligan

My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.

Sinovuyo Nkonki

When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me

Stanley Victor Paskavich

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

Tatyana Eckstrand

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

Tracy K. Smith

I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration.

Karen Russell

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

Lena Dunham

nothing is lifeless when the moon writes its screed on the silvern sand silence -From the poem:"The Universe In Blossom

Munia Khan

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

Mark Strand

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

Sharon Olds

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

Ellen Bass

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendy Cope

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

Dylan Thomas

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

jaime gil de beidma

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

George Murray

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

Jeffrey McDaniel

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

C. K. Williams

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

Johnny Depp