40 Quotes on Poems

You must shine through darkness to truly appreciate the brilliance of your own light.
Author: Aurora Johnson
Love is the silent language of the heart; listen closely and you will hear its beautiful poetry
Author: Maya Angelou
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Author: Virginia Woolf
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Author: Virginia Woolf
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.
Author: James Welch
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Author: Mark Strand
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Author: Anne Stevenson
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
Author: Ringo Starr
I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.
Author: Billy Sherwood
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
Author: Mary Oliver
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
Author: Mary Oliver
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
Author: Jack Nicholson
I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.
Author: Howard Nemerov
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
Author: George Murray
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
Author: Edvard Munch
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
Author: Robert Morgan
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
Author: Laurence Housman
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Author: Horace
I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.
Author: John Hawkes
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
Author: Marilyn Hacker
Many of my poems are not sexual.
Author: Thom Gunn
We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.
Author: Thom Gunn
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
Author: Thom Gunn
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Author: John Fowles
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.
Author: Robert Fitzgerald
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
Author: Ian Finlay
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
Author: Brian Ferneyhough
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.
Author: Grazia Deledda
I like poems that are complex.
Author: Peter Davison
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
Author: Peter Davison
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
Author: Peter Davison
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
Author: James Broughton
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
Author: Peter Bichsel
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
Author: John Barton
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.
Author: John Barton
I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
Author: John Barton
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Author: John Ashbery
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
Author: David Antin
I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.
Author: David Antin

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