(198 quotes found)
“It's awfully hard to fit my poems into song, ... I have a hard time fitting the poetic stanza into the timed meter of the music stanza, because you always have to end with a rhyme and there's always a beat.”
Jewel
“Every old poem is sacred.”
Horace
“There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.”
Gore Vidal
“To see the Summer Sky/ Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --/ True Poems flee --”
Emily Dickinson
“Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy.Easy?Of course—you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands.I never met him.Who?Everybody.Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting?I am.Pardon me?I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational.Not all painting.No: housepainting is representational.And what does a housepainter represent?Ten dollars an hour.In other words, you don’t want to be serious—It takes two to be serious.”
E. E. Cummings
“The city is one very long poem. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance... The devil comes here and sighs... Somebody puts something in front of you here and you might as well drink it.”
Bob Dylan
“He laurelled me one day, With a poem everlasting; A Spring Kiss sweet and lasting.”
Leah Dancel
“The only gift is a portion of thyself. . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . .”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You're never going to know who wrote which poem. That's a secret we're going to die with.”
Jim Harrison
“I'm not sure of any direct influence, but some of my most successful poems are short poems. They have kind of a distilled focus, like Dickinson. They're very elliptical. She is quite elliptical - she distills down to the core. But my poetry doesn't sound like Dickinson's.”
Harry Brown
