Boxes Quote by Marianne Boruch Download Open image “A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.” — Marianne Boruch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boxes Poetry Safe Safe keeping
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together. — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice. — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself… — Kesha Copy Share Image