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The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts… — Harryette Mullen
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. — Edgar Allan Poe
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a… — Robinson Jeffers
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are… — Rollo May
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for… — Walt Whitman
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not like Snow. I… — Helen Oyeyemi
And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to… — Conor Oberst
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long… — Hart Crane
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss… — Hart Crane
My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled me with soul… — William Carlos Williams
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays.… — Tennessee Williams
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's… — Maurice Sendak
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance, — Mahmoud Darwish
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to… — Mark Strand
A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly… — Paul Celan
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. — Paul Celan
A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be… — Hayden Carruth
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
Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is… — Unknown Author
Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God… — Ebenezer Elliott
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. — John Milton
Mother loved the wind. When I was growing up, she would recite this poem to me. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I,… — Alice Steinbach

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