Top 1200 Poems Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.

I don’t know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

I think it's better if you write poems that look like you.

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

I like poems and keep sharing them online.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

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

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People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.

Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word accessible.

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

There are either poems about sex/love or God.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word 'accessible.'

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.

I really liked writing rhyming poems and plays.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.

It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.