Quotes of: Poem Keyword

Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Instead of reciting her an original love poem using words, I think I’ll use my tongue to more creatively explore the deepest parts of her.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I think the perfect pen name is Quill McSeagull. Especially for writing flights of fancy—and nothing has more feathers than a love poem.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Undercover

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

White Oleander

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

Wordsworth: Poems

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.

Words Under the Words: Selected Poems

He's lost his colour very far from here, Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry

The War Poems

A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

War Is Kind and Other Poems

There may be losses too great to understand That rove after you and--faint and terrible-- rip unknown through your hand.

The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems

You smell like a bar," he said. I thought, But I wanted to have sex right then, so I said, "You smell like a poem.

The Wonder Spot

I had a dream about a poem once… that's all, I can't tell you about it because I had to sign an NDA.

We Had A #Dream About You

... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.

Zero Hour And Other Documentary Poems

Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away

Deaths For The Ladies

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

Natasha Trethewey

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Philip Larkin

… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy

Philip Levine

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

Rita Dove

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

Rita Dove

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Robert Fitzgerald

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song

Sylvia Plath