Poem Quotes - page 4

The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written – or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way. (Robert E. Howard)
Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer, according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue. View quote
Roger Ebert
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. View quote
Paul Nurse
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. View quote
Laurie Anderson
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains. View quote
Erica Jong
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem. View quote
Erica Jong
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters. View quote
T. E. Hulme
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
We are all writing God's poem. View quote
Anne Sexton
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. (Anne Sexton)
But at some point, you know that- you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." View quote
Glenn Beck
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." View quote
Robert Penn Warren
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation.... Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame. View quote
Laura Riding
The rhythmic pattern of the poem, which forces continuity of attention – incites a pleasurable compulsion to ‘follow' – is either a tried metrical suasion-contrivance or a specially invented pattern of physical insistences, equally, if not more, binding in its effect on the reader. From a straight linguistic point of view, there is room for wonder if there is not latent vice in this environment in which pleasurable physically-compelled responses, produced by incidents of poetic utterance, are identified with the Good. View quote
Laura Riding
And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy. View quote
George Chapman
A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, "It makes me want to write poetry." View quote
Richard Brautigan
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart. (Johnny Depp)
Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem? View quote
Paul Gauguin
Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem. View quote
Masiela Lusha
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. View quote
Bob Dylan
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. [Opening sentence.]. View quote
John Steinbeck