Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace Mann
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
Michel de Montaigne
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Pablo Neruda
A poem is no place for an idea.
Edgar Watson Howe
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
C. S. Lewis
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren
Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.
Richard Corliss
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
Diane Ackerman
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
Stephane Mallarme
I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
Every single soul is a poem.
Michael Franti
You're never going to know who wrote which poem. That's a secret we're going to die with.
Jim Harrison
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
Cesare Lombroso
That was really a great poem, it was very personal and emotional. He was very involved with the family.
Diane Jacobowitz
By the time Allen read 'Howl' -- and when Snyder then read 'The Berry Feast,' the first deep-ecology poem -- we felt that a body had been thrown against the barricades.
Michael Mcclure
The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music.
Robert A. Schumann
We'd go in there without much of an idea and sit and discuss. They evolved in the studio itself. Directions would appear, and it often fell to me to write the poem that connected the dots.
Graeme Edge
Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: "if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me." Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.
Janeane Garofalo
The students write songs of themselves. First they draw paintings about what they feel and see to get to the heart of the poem. It's not an easy poem but they come away liking the poem.
Lee Keylock
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
Jules Massenet
From the letters, people would certainly learn more about how a poem is made, ... They may learn more about iambic pentameter than they ever wished.
Anne Wright
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.
Marcel Duchamp
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
Wallace Stevens
We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.
Mary Hilaire Tavenner
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
James Fenton
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Stephen Spender
A book containing this offensive poem should not be included in any textbook.
Greville Janner
At Holyrood's official opening ceremony, Scotland's Poet Laureate Edwin Morgan told us in his poem of the same name to 'Open the Doors!' and we are doing exactly that.
George Reid
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
Douglas Dunn
Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is t.
Rose Mccaulay
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery
The piano is telling the story as well. It takes a poem, which is already very rich, and you hear it set to music.
William Ferguson
[Next, I looked up Elizabeth Bishop's poem] North Haven, ... The caftan in clear red silk with a richness of eyelet embroidery at outstretched sleeve. Did someone say party?
Robert Lowell
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.
Julian Cope
Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
Philip Levine
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
B. F. Skinner
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
C. Day Lewis
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
Douglas Dunn
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.
Paul Desmond
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