Quotes about Poem
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.
Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.
We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
The moment of change is the only poem.
Every single soul is a poem.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
A picture is a poem without words.
