Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
“The poet must believe in the unknown as well as the known. This must become indistinguishable at times within the poem to… — the mag man Copy Share Image
“My heart is crushed, my knees are weakened. My tears drench my pillow, my tears flood my bed every night. Do you… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“There was a warrior once who fought Against man's subtlest, mightiest foe, And more than valiant deeds he wrought T' effect th'… — Thomas Gillet Copy Share Image
“And now it is said of me That my love is nothing because I have borne no children, Or because I have… — James Wright Copy Share Image
“If you were only one inch tall, you'd ride a worm to school. The teardrop of a crying ant would be your… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“...feel the fierce way desire tourniquets itself around you and clings Clubland South of Market tweak- chic trannies powder their noses from… — Clint Catalyst Copy Share Image
I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses:… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
“Greta is great, but he's a little...extremely...moody. Take my birthday last year. At the stroke of midnight, he appeared at my door.… — Bratniss Everclean Copy Share Image
“Give me one more night to taste the dark When wolves imitate a lone dog's bark Let those secrets remain unspoken Fallen… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How… — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“Let us keep enough money to enjoy each breath we take, but definitely not too much, if we don’t want to spoil… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Have you heard of this? An octogenarian, nasal cannula and wheeled oxygen, explains to me he’s ready and eager, exhausted by consciousness.” — Colin Pope Copy Share Image
“The storms inside uncoil into sky held calm by far seeing eyes Memories dressed in the translucent trickery of the mind, so… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
“I'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does: Make things simpler We don't need poems to make things more… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The sweetest melody that plays on starry nights and wintry days, most soothing to my listening ears and calming to beleaguering fears,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The horses have stopped their clippity-clop, but feet are too slow for where I must go. So here I shall stay until… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“Quit bothering with angels, I say. They’re no good for Indians. Remember what happened last time some white god came floating across… — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
“My surname for a mask to pretend! I have no stand to protest, but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“For what is the point of having something lovely if you never share it? It would be like having a poem, a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "in"… — Portia Nelson Copy Share Image
“But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Cause I can love a poem up out of you-like my middle name is Harlem..and my fingerprints are permanent-you ain't gone wash… — Shanica Stewart Copy Share Image
“And now we who are writing women and strange monsters Still search our hearts to find the difficult answers, Still hope that… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
![“I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses: "This poem is kind of important to me. I don't know why, but I'm going to just keep it in the back of my mind." I just kept coming back to it. As I started putting the book together…” quote by Peter van Agtmael](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6a5/peter-van-agtmael-25908_book_i-read-the-poem-in-a-dark-time-by-theodo_2244408.jpg)
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