Best poem Quote by Alex Lemon Download Open image “I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.” — Alex Lemon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Best poem Best Poems I can Poems Poems Vessels Poetry Thinking Vessel Vessels Vessels Hope
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
think what you hope for is that at different times of your life you're able to write the poetry that reflects the moment that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I don't spend time thinking about an aesthetic out of which I create or an ideal toward which my body of work is heading.… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. I try to give to… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes out of… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music,… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
“But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face; It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously… — Diana Gabaldon 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
I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
