Quotes of: Poem Keyword

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

Jason Newsted

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Theodore Bikel

We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected

Above the River: The Complete Poems

Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.

The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it: The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

Hourglass Museum

Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems

I want to write a poem about "Truth," "Honor," "Dignity," and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it.

I Want

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

The Jane Austen Book Club

More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild

Revolutionary Letters

When first we met, we did not guess, That love would prove so hard a master...

Robert Bridges: A Collection of Poems

It takes an aeon to shift position, get comfortable, let alone create a wave in this fishbowl full of glue. - from the poem 'Critical Mass

Rawshock

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Sand and Foam

Poems are not often simply emotions but One has enough emotions -- they're experience Experience themselves are not important....

From My Pen, On Life

You played it with great seriousness. And it is not such an uncommon game. Do you know Ibsen's poem --

The Manticore

Returning to where It used to see blossoms, My mind, changed, Will stay on at Yoshino... Home now, and see anew.

Mirror For The Moon: A Selection Of Poems

Today's satori: Such a change of mind would Not exist without My lifelong habit of having My mind immersed in blossoms.

Mirror For The Moon: A Selection Of Poems

Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

More Poems

June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.

More Poems

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

Milton a Poem

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

The Madness Vase

You are...the embodiment of immediate good karma. The equalizer between bottom feeders and the sanctimonious cogs in the system.

No Return Address: A collection of poems