Poem Quotes
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Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!
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Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.
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We'd go in there without much of an idea and sit and discuss. They evolved in the studio itself. Directions would appear, and it often fell to me to write the poem that connected the dots.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
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I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.
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Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.
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A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.
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Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.
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The story and the poem are obviously changed by being placed in the novel, so in a sense they're no longer the works that preceded the novel.
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“A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.
