258 Poem Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more despair. Clint Smith

Sometimes Girl Just Be Despair About Something Poem More Jumping Just Should Rope

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences. Dan Miller

Good Working Together Together Think Neighbors One Line Darned Pretty Poem Columbia He Like Make Without Said Prove Fences Line His Working Alaska British British Columbia

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. Dana Goodyear

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A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away. David Whyte

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem. Dexter Gordon

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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. Diane Ackerman

Together Lie Emotions Language Moods Poem Only Records Beyond Normal

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction. Donald Hall

You Poem Direction Write Go Short Anything Short Story Story

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. Douglas Dunn

Reading Poem Aloud Audience Precise Much

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language. Eavan Boland

No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness. Ed Schultz

Love Forgiveness Adversity Mom Justice World Despite Circumstance Kids Poem Could Had Boundless She Faith-Based Unwavering Capacity Her

Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. Edward Hirsch

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. Edward Hirsch

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective. Edward Hirsch

You Suffering Made Objective Poem Only Write Person Choices Need

The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading. Edward Hirsch

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When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away. Eileen Myles

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The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time. Eileen Myles

Time First Out Poem Exciting Most Read First Time Loud Thing

It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread. Elif Safak

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In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all. Eugene H. Peterson

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A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. Eyvind Johnson

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