Poems Quotes

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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that… — Paul Auster
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
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
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in… — Margaret Atwood
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however… — Paul Auster
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? — William Blake
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into… — Gwendolyn Brooks
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. — James Broughton
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. — Jane Campion
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time. — Sherman Alexie
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the… — Sam Abell
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. — A. R. Ammons
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… — Olga Masters
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I… — June Jordan
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. — Henry Ward Beecher
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the… — Helen Fisher
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as… — George Thorndike Angell
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. — Albert Einstein

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