Poem Quotes
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Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It was like how, when he read a poem to himself, the rhymes were neither sound nor silence. Unheard melodies in the mind’s ear. The muted music of consciousness.
Ben Lerner
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A picture is poem without words.
Confucius -
Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
Arnold Adoff -
There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.
Ada Limon -
The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
Philip James Bailey -
A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.
Arnold Adoff -
When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.
Aja Monet
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I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.
Adelia Prado -
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer -
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
Catherynne M. Valente -
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
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.
Emily Susan Rapp -
“Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.
Alice Notley -
I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.
Nick Laird -
Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.
Juan Felipe Herrera -
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.
Paul Muldoon
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What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
Ann Reed -
Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook.
Nizar Qabbani -
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day.
Stephen Dobyns -
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
Paul Nurse