Quotes of: Poem Keyword

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

Poems of Christina Rossetti

And oft the blessed time foretells When all men shall be free; And musical, as silver bells, Their falling chains shall be.

Poems on Slavery.

Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative

Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them" from the poem - STAY in the Book - RidingTheEscalator

Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

Twenty Prose Poems

Abraham Lincoln wrote a poem about me once. You might know it as the Gettysburg Address. Men with beards are romantic.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

...so i will greet you in a way all loved things are meant to be greeted with a tear in my heart and a poem in my eye.

Turquoise Silence

there have been mornings so quiet and tender like a poem, on Thursday's lips that I wondered if I'd been kissed at all...

Turquoise Silence

He wouldn’t even understand dry wit if you dropped him off in the desert with a canteen full of sand and a Sandberg poem.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

He remembers which sister I like least and asks how she is doing. (lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')

The Tethers

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

Venus Invisible and Other Poems

Though all the guns be silenced, each soldier in his home, There is no peace till Love comes, till the meek may safely roam.

The Washington Poems

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

The War Poems

...It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem 'Fantasia on a Theme from IKEA')

The Water Table

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Alice Oswald

I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.

Julian Cope

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterp...

Louise Gluck

People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other ("Poem")

The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

Mary Oliver

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

Nicholas Mosley