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I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of… — Sarah Kay
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean… — Sarah Kay
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. — Thom Gunn
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than… — Thom Gunn
Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming… — Adam Zagajewski
It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem… — Daisaku Ikeda
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never… — Alasdair Gray
For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit. — Tracy K. Smith
God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all… — Grace Noll Crowell
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and… — Robert Frost
A poem is the realization of love. . . . — Rene Char
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it never seems quite… — Richard Hugo
Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There is only the… — Takuan Soho
Even the most political poem is an act of faith. — Unknown Author
The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form… — Joshua Foer
It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is… — Brian Ferneyhough
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that… — Unknown Author
Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight… — Joanna Newsom
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron… — Robinson Jeffers
John Clare, in his poem To a Fallen Elm, makes the tree a selfmark as well as a landmark. — Unknown Author
How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree… — Satish Kumar
Life is a poem most people never read. — Laurence Overmire
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A picture is poem without words. — Confucius
These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit… — Franklin P. Adams

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