Top 1200 Spring Poems Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I still read Donne, particularly his love 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

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

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

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

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

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

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

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

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

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

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

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

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

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

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

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