Daggers Quote by Jose Marti

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

— Frederick Seidel

A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a…

— Celeste Ng

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

— John Cleveland

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

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

— Alex Lemon

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

— Seamus Heaney

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

— Mike Gordon

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a…

— Irving Layton

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

— Sherman Alexie

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

— Andrew Motion