Quotes of: Poem Keyword

Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

Collected Poems

Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.

Caribou: Poems

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

The Complete Poems

E poi ci sono quelli che credono che le vecchie relazioni possano essere rivissute e fatte nuove. Ma perfavore se ti senti in quel modo non chiamare non scrivere non arrivare...

Come On In!: New Poems

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

The Complete Stories and Poems

I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me.

The Complete Poems

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

The Complete Poems

Then, if to make your ruin more, You'll peevishly be coy, Die with the scandal of a whore And never know the joy.

The Complete Poems

How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.

Collected Poems

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

The Dream Songs: Poems

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

The Dream Songs: Poems

If abandoned rage asks, / Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.

The End of the Alphabet: Poems

Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

Essay on Man and Other Poems

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.

The Erotic Poems

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Festus: A Poem

Each drop that fell, had a story to tell. each smile that curved, said a million words. (Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)

Ginger and Honey

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

God's Silence

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

Birds of Passage

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.

Allen Tate

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Cesare Lombroso