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:

• 1 Every Poem Quote by Denise Levertov
• 1 Every Poem Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Every Poem Quote by May Sarton
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Adrienne Rich
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot
• 1 Every Poem Quote by C. K. Williams
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Dan Quisenberry
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Robert Frost
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Jimmy Santiago Baca
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Dorianne Laux
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Utah Phillips
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Galway Kinnell
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Marie Howe
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Jean Cocteau
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Philip Larkin
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Mary Karr
• 1 Every Poem Quote by Murali Iyengar