(198 quotes found)
“Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.”
Virgil
“A poem ought to be well made at first, for there is many a one to spoil it afterwards.”
Irish Proverb
“She saved all of those poems in a scrapbook, ... And when I look at the scrapbook, it brings back so many memories of fights we used to have or the people we used to be, what we liked to do.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.”
Theodore Roszak
“Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.”
John Milton
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.”
Robert Frost
“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.”
Wallace Stevens
“The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy”
Walt Whitman
“In your light I learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.”
Irving Layton
