Poems Quotes
Poems Quote of the day
We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.
Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
poems are small moments of enlightenment
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.
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[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
