When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.
I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped - what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again.
At Epic, we succeed when developers succeed.
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger.
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.
It's Axelle's [ Carolyn] concept and she's the one who got the ball rolling. She told a few of us about it, and I brought in Epic Pictures and got it financed.
It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—
I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'.
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
'Flash' has a family drama element, 'Arrow' has a epic saga/crime element, 'Supergirl' has a young-woman-in-the-city and a workplace element, and 'Legends' is like the Dirty Dozen teaming up.
When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.
When I fought Kampmann, something happened in that fight and to me, it's still the most epic moment in my career. I was losing and something happened and I flipped a switch.
CROUCHING TIGER is nevertheless a gloriously big epic, starring the Hong Kong action stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh in a visionary adventure where the characters seem set free from the force of gravity.
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.
Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.
'Teenage Wildlife' is just epic. It's, like, five or six minutes long, and it kind of crescendos and builds into this insane vocal of Bowie wailing. I think I would pay $5,000 dollars to see footage of that recording session.
I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
My team and I used the actual footage to create a three-act story of the life of Ayrton Senna. There are no talking heads and no voiceover. Senna narrates his own epic, dramatic, thrilling journey.
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.
Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.
In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.
It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.
I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.
... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.
Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as a child. I still have a soft spot for that one!
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.
Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy.
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