Quotes about Poems

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Muriel Rukeyser

Kick back and sincerely enjoy this book. I hope some of these poems make you think.

Gregory Johnson

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

Robert Adamson

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Hippolyte Taine

I've always thought my poems told stories.

Douglas Dunn

One of the poems is about George Bush, but I had no time to read it.

Bakhtiar Amin

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison

The first six months, I was visiting and writing poems about them. That was a big surprise. ... I'm not a conventionally religious person.

Lisa Williams

Allen turned up at my little cabin, ... and we immediately began exchanging poems.

Gary Snyder

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Tyler Johnson

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

John Ashbery

New and Selected Poems: Volume Two.

Mary Oliver

I wrote simple poems with deep meaning instead of confusing poems that no one understands.

Jeffery Smith