Top 1200 Poems Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

I'd like to think...that people in pubs would talk about my poems

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my poems aloud to myself as I'm composing them. And I enjoy reading to an audience. I think people get tone more easily when they hear a writer read her work. Some people have told me they hear more humor in my poems at a live reading than when they see them on the page. I think that may be a matter of pacing. On the other hand, I've listened to a lot of poetry readings and I know how much you can miss. If you stop to really register one line, you miss the next three or so.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.

Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.

Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.

You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you

The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form.

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later.

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

I have written symphonic poems and chamber music. It is my way of personal expression.

Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.

Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live.