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.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.
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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.
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Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
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I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
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...a good poem contains both meaning and music.
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Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook.
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The monsoon came, six months of infinite rain. The towns I once knew were wiped clean, and everyone said it was God revising his poem.
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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.
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“Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.
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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.
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Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.
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The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Writing a poem is making music with words and space.
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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.
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I write one poem a year, usually in January or February.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.
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Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.
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A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.
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Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.
