“I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.”
John Ashbery
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
Rachel Carson
“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
“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
“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
