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A picture is a poem without words.


Horace
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The moment of change is the only poem.


Adrienne Rich
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The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.


Jose Bergamin
Tags: Born Novel Poem
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.


Paul Engle
Tags: Way Write Poet
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I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.


Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tags: Every Read Others
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When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.


Liam Neeson
Tags: Great Like See
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I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.


Jim Harrison
Tags: First Got Book
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren
Tags: Part Attempt Poem
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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.


Allen Tate
Tags: Where After Why
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.


Octavio Paz
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
Dorothy Fields
Tags: Music Could Long
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I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.


James Schuyler
Tags: Much End Often
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
Natasha Trethewey
As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.
Carolyn Kizer
Tags: About First Real
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
Patti Smith
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
Howard Nemerov
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Harold Bloom
Tags: Strength Any Call
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
Tags: Poetry How Where
I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.
Jane Hirshfield
Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.
Raymond Aubrac
Tags: Poetry You Know
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
Ben Okri
Tags: Best Like Go
I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.
Billy Collins
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
Mark Strand
Tags: Who Out Would
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
A. R. Ammons
Tags: Time Chance Then
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
James Merrill
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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.
Thom Gunn
Tags: Great More Than
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
Maya Angelou
Tags: Music Hope You
'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.
CeCe Peniston
Tags: Poetry Out Always
When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.
Nina Arianda
Tags: People Me Could
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.
Hart Crane
I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
Billy Collins
Tags: Funny Think Just
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
James Laughlin
Tags: Me Just Thing
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
Dan Quisenberry
Tags: Me Just Because
I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.
Ann Powers
Tags: Music Got Little
I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.
Billy Collins
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
H. P. Lovecraft
Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say, is no poem; nevertheless, I keep wanting it to be one.
John Updike
Tags: You Every Say
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
Billy Collins
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Tags: Been Will Then
For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
Baltasar Kormakur
Tags: Me About Come