Best Poems Qoutes
758 Poems quotes by 493 unique authors
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Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop in a Chinese…
— Charles Harper Webb
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There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and…
— Unknown Author
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May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're…
— Rob Brezsny
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I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to…
— Frederick Seidel
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I like poems that are daggers that sing.
— Frederick Seidel
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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
— Lewis Carroll
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Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one…
— Mao Zedong
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The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one,…
— Adrian Mitchell
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One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
— John Dryden
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In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations…
— Peter Porter
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My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I…
— Diane Wakoski
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For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the…
— Bonnie Jo Campbell
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I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and…
— Debby Ryan
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Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.
— Antonio Gala
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who…
— Socrates
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One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but…
— Isaac Asimov
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For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.
— Langston Hughes
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Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
— Sharon Olds
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Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems…
— Kendrick Lamar
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Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when…
— Lauren Groff
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True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people…
— Kate Morton
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We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,…
— Max Nordau
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Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.
— E L Doctorow
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the…
— C. K. Williams
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I do not know how to make poems
— Henri Michaux
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