My Poems Quotes

54 My Poems quotes by 47 unique authors

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more… — Margaret Atwood
Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories… — Unknown Author
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and… — Gary Snyder
The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere. — Ilya Kaminsky
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. — Hayden Carruth
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free… — Andrew Motion
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a… — Andrew Motion
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only… — Sharon Olds
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there.… — Mary Oliver
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible. — Billy Collins
I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. — Edith SÃ¶dergran
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure. — Martial
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. — Edith Sitwell
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I… — Anne Stevenson
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. — Salvatore Quasimodo
My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various… — Anna Kamienska
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way… — Rae Armantrout

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