Poem Quotes

• She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Time
  • Smart
  • Poem

• Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

  

  Paul Nurse
  • Understanding
  • Poem
  • Scientific

• I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.

  

  Joyce Kilmer
  • Tree
  • Poem
  • Mouth

• Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook.

  

  Nizar Qabbani
  • Light
  • Notebook
  • Lantern

• There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version...

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Poem
  • Version

• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Forever
  • Ride
  • Ice

• We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Poem
  • Says
  • Restate

• I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over.

  

  Carole Ann Ford
  • Earth
  • Poetry
  • Start Over

• The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.

  

  Andre Naffis-Sahely
  • Political
  • Triteness
  • Brow-Beating

• I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I need right now: More words dedicated to people who will never dedicate a single thing to me

  

  Charlotte Green
  • Need
  • Last
  • Wrote

• A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms.

  

  Stephen Dobyns
  • Human
  • Window
  • Rooms

• A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Tea
  • Page
  • Strains

• How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • Happen

• Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • God
  • Children
  • Support

• If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Suicide

• If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.

  

  Albert Goldbarth
  • Book
  • Membership
  • Victorian

• Writing a poem is discovering.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Writing
  • Poem
  • Discovering

• There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Heart

• When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Animal
  • Worship
  • Poem

• The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Real
  • May
  • Evidence

• Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.

  

  Burton Rascoe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Poet

• My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

  

  Mata Hari
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Movement

• Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon find its meaning.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Long
  • Book
  • Study

• A picture is poem without words.

  

  Confucius
  • Words
  • Picture
  • Poem

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