Quotes about Poem
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
It's difficult to know when to put an inverted comma around a poem.
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.
Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.
A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection.
A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.
Whether it's a poem I'm working on or a picture I've snapped, it all has to do with the curiosity I feel without thinking about it.
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
A really good poem is full of music.
I have a favorite poem. From Rudyard Kipling. It's called 'L'Envoi.'
A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
