Poem Quotes

A picture is a poem without words. (Horace)
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. View quote
Bob Dylan
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. View quote
Robert Frost
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. View quote
Steven Wright
A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned. View quote
Paul Valéry
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. View quote
Spike Milligan
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. View quote
David Carradine
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. View quote
John Updike
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. (Eyvind Johnson)
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. View quote
M. H. Abrams
The poem must resist the intelligence Almost successfully. View quote
Wallace Stevens
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. View quote
Gore Vidal
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. View quote
Robert Frost
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. View quote
E. M. Forster
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.' View quote
Cesare Lombroso
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. View quote
John Millington Synge
The moment of change is the only poem. View quote
Adrienne Rich
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. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of autobiography. (Robert Penn Warren)
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. View quote
Octavio Paz