Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Every old poem is sacred.
Every single soul is a poem.
A picture is a poem without words.
A really good poem is full of music.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
The moment of change is the only poem.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.
I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.
I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
I have a favorite poem. From Rudyard Kipling. It's called 'L'Envoi.'
The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
I redo the body of my poem like someone who tries to cure her own wound.
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
