“She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.”
Bob Dylan
“Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first”
Mark Twain
“My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.”
Groucho Marx
“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.”
Carl Sandburg
“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?”
Oscar Hammerstein II
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
