(198 quotes found)
“If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.”
Thomas Lynch
“A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!”
Contributed by: Randi
Author unknown
“On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park....”
Nicholas Gordon
“Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say, When all souls come back from the far away- The dead, forgotten this many a day!”
Virna Sheard
“Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint alentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.”
Michael Drayton
“The true poem is the poet's mind.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Judge a poem like you would judge a person, for it was the person who wrote the poem.”
A.J. Chilson
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
Robert Frost
“What I wanted was to write a better love poem than the last, and when that didn't happen it killed me.”
“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
