That grand old poem called Winter

My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you can fly.

— David Miliband

“Once on yellow sheet of paper with green lines, he wrote a poem and he called it “Spot” because that was the name of…

— Earl Reum

“I want you only to dream of you,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare not tell…

— Fernando Pessoa

Every old poem is sacred.

— Horace

There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever…

— Taylor Swift

My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me…

— Ruby Dee

“I wanna make growing old with you the last poem I ever have to write”

— Michael Biondi

It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.

— Joseph Brodsky

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes…

— Reginald Horace Blyth

“….unable to find a title for her last published novel, she wrote six lines which included her eventual title The Birds Fall Down. These…

— Victoria Glendinning

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out.…

— Arthur Golden

“this is actualy a poem we have been called naive as if it were a dirty word, whe have been called innocent as though…

— Jewel Kilcher

“It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to…

— Elie Wiesel

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there…

— Edward Hirsch

“In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know you do…

— Steven Wright