(198 quotes found)
“It seems to me that if poems should do anything, they should confirm our intimacy — at least point us in that direction,”
Jeff Hardin
“Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend”
Marcus Aurelius
“A poem should not mean, But be”
Archibald MacLeish
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
Oscar Wilde
“One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."”
Peter Brodie
“I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.”
Dylan Thomas
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
Gilda Radner
“In the phrases of songs and poems bread is gold, it is the motherland, it is the hard work of the masses, it is life itself.”
Seth Mydans
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
David Carradine
“The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.”
William Carlos Williams
