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Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God… — Cesare Lombroso
That grand old poem called Winter — Henry David Thoreau
Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. — Robert Pinsky
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense… — May Swenson
Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind… — James Laughlin
There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem. — Mark Doty
One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded… — Mark Doty
Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a… — Max Lucado
Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as… — James Turrell
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song — Masanobu Fukuoka
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose.… — Maxine Hong Kingston
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of… — Allen Tate
A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them… — Allen Tate
When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector… — Billy Collins
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started.… — Billy Collins
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can… — Billy Collins
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. — Stephen Dobyns
A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms. — Stephen Dobyns
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell
Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose for… — Charlotte Mason
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess… — Wislawa Szymborska
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction… — John Ciardi
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem… — Burton Rascoe
If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can… — Karla Kuskin
I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God, my… — Christian Wiman

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