Daggers Quote by Frederick Seidel

I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power…

— Frederick Seidel

My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.

— Jose Marti

I like poems that are complex.

— Peter Davison

I like poems that are little games.

— Peter Davison

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

— Matthea Harvey

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

— Edward Hirsch

I'm really into poetry.

— Grace Potter

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

— Mark Strand

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

— John Ashbery

We want poems that kill assassin poems, poems that shoot guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys. And take their weapon, leaving them dead

— Anonymous

I love romantic poetry.

— Richard Dawkins

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

— Peleg Top