Your Poems Quotes
- The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly
- You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble — Charles Olson
- Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things… — E E Cummings
- Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to… — Fernando Pessoa
- Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down… — Dorianne Laux
- Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they… — Dorianne Laux
- But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can… — Steve Martin