Quotes of: Poems Keyword

A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the sleeve-worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown— A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. A poem should be motionless in...

Collected Poems, 1917-1982

It is natural to speak of hymns as "poems," indiscriminately, for they have the same structure. But a hymn is not necessarily a poem, while a poem that can be sung as a hymn is something more than a poem. Imagination makes poems; devotion makes hymns...

The Story of the Hymns and Tunes

Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.

Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems: Collected Poems, 1950-1962

When we have changed everything we will eat congratulations with our tea.

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings

The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever.

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems and Drawings

It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because they paid a dollar a line. I had an eighteen-line poem, and just as I was putting it into the envelope, I stopped and decided to make it a thirt...

August Wilson

A poem should not mean But be.

Collected Poems, 1917-1982

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Harold Bloom

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

The Poems of John Donne; Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.

Paul Muldoon

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, 'Oh, that's what this is all about,' and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anyt...

Sarah Kay

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

Robert Morgan

A friend is a poem.

Iranian

Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

When people talk about poetry as a project, they suggest that the road through a poem is a single line. When really the road through a poem is a series of lines, like a constellation, all interconnected. Poems take place in the realm of chance, where...

Love

Everything’s different from us. That’s why everything exists.

Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa,: Including Poems by His Heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis [And] Alvaro de Campos, as Well as Some of His Eng

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never...

Rubicon Beach

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want th...

The Apple That Astonished Paris

I found the poems in the fields, And only wrote them down.

The Later Poems, 1837-1864: Volumes I and II