(167 quotes found)
“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
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.”
Carl Sandburg
“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
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf
“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word”
Mata Hari
“Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.”
Dylan Thomas
“If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.”
Sherman Alexie
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
Paul Valery
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