258 Poem Quotes for You to Enjoy

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Inspirational Good Day Every Day Song Words Speak Picture Few Every Possible At Least One See Poem Read Least Hear Sensible Little Should Exquisite

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Faith Experience People Liberty Will Country Lamp Skin Statue Statue Of Liberty Religious Kinds Religious Faith Follow Poem Color Lifts Welcomes She Known Because America Shore Shores Famous Golden Where Prejudice Her Image

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Robert Frost

Sense Poem Poetry Throat Wrong Begins Homesickness Lump

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington

Dignity Writing Field Poem Prosper Learns Till Race Much

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost

Wisdom Poem Delight Begins Ends

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright

Thought Reading Everything About Poem Poetry Dictionary

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. Marguerite Duras

Music Man Woman Book Human Being Illusion Power Creation Painting Alcohol Other Give Poem Real Replace Human Being

I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.' Sylvia Plath

Writing Remember Will Wish Feelings Down Ability Poem Could Write Feels Like Aloud Know Because Said How Am Up Snow Forgotten Being Eight Little Grow Grow Up Now

And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman

Great Poem Shall Very Flesh Your

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer

Nature Think Tree See Poem Shall Never Lovely

Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.' Sylvia Plath

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. Bob Dylan

People Some People Poet Naked Say People Say Some Poem Am Person

I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself. Orlando Bloom

Myself Stage Kind Dressing Dressing Room Poem Mentally Part Read Go Get Personal Just Little Room Prepared Routine

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. Walt Whitman

States Poem Greatest Essentially Themselves United United States

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. Bernardo Bertolucci

Me Reality Before Films Kind Poem Only Poetry Attempt Make Return Accept Least Camera Create Each Film Interpretations

I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it rip. It's usually over in twenty to forty minutes. I'll go back and tinker with a word or two, change a line for some metrical reason weeks later, but I try to get the whole thing just done. Billy Collins

Change Try Word Back Later Rip Some Minutes Poem Weeks Write Over Go Line Revise Very Get Sitting Tinker Done Just Much Forty Reason Whole Twenty Fast Thing Two

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it. Carol Ann Duffy

The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer encounter poems alone, and many varieties of experience would emerge from such an exercise. John Burnside

Alone Animal Experience Distinct Possible Would Would-Be Emerge Poem Poems Genre Exercise Anthology Encounter Create Many Now Deer

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. Rita Dove

Thought Poem Aria Overheard Years Heard Whisper Many

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Robert Penn Warren

Poem Hazardous Attempt Part Autobiography Deepest

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer. Tahar Ben Jelloun

Prayer Every Others Poem Read Every Night Night

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