Top 1200 Poems Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

Listen to presences inside poems.

I like poems that are little games.

I write poems.

S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

I am writing these poems from inside a lion.

I like poems that are complex.

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

Title deeds generally outlast poems.

I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

I've always thought my poems told stories.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own.

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

That's what poems are for, unlivable love.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

Poems are difficult to silence.

What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.

There are not enough poems in praise of bed.

You litter poems with too much learning when you're younger.

All the poems of our lives are not yet made.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

There are poems inside of you that paper can’t handle.

I do not know how to make poems

I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

There are no honest poems about dead women.

All good poems are victories over something.

My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.

The truth is that the poems are ecstatic.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

Some poems are art because of their passion.

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

I write poems to figure things out

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Poems aren't postcards to send home.

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Writing fiction, for me, is a more indirect form of self-exploration than writing verse. When I'm working on a novel I'm moving characters around and I'm thinking about plot and there's a lot of other things going on at the level of structure and story. With a poem, a single idea or line or emotion can sometimes be enough - there's often a sense, in the best poems, of capturing a single instant. Perhaps poems differ from prose in the degree of solace they can offer - by speaking so personally, so directly, about shared experience. A few lines of poetry can provide comfort.

I like poems that are daggers that sing.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.