Every Poem Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
-
When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I…
— Denise Levertov
-
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
— C.S. Lewis
-
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
— May Sarton
-
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
— Adrienne Rich
-
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
-
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the…
— C. K. Williams
-
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost…
— Dan Quisenberry
-
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
— Robert Frost
-
Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man,…
— Jimmy Santiago Baca
-
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t.
— Dorianne Laux
-
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they…
— Utah Phillips
-
There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version
— Galway Kinnell
-
Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us.…
— Marie Howe
-
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these…
— Jean Cocteau
-
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.
— Edgar Allan Poe
-
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or…
— Philip Larkin
-
Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
— Mary Karr
-
For every half, there is a whole. For every hand, there's one to hold. For every poem, there is a meaning. And every chance starts…
— Murali Iyengar
Who Wrote These Every Poem Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Every Poem Quotes as follows: