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Poem Quotes (page 19)

God, A Poem 'I didn't exist at Creation, I didn't exist at the Flood, And I won't be around for Salvation. To sort out the sheep from the cud-'Or whatever the phrase is. The fact is. In soteriological terms. I'm a crude existential malpractice. And you are a diet of worms James Fenton
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. Seamus Heaney
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book. Muriel Rukeyser
Walter Benjamin quote: "No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the..."
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener. Walter Benjamin
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out. Erica Jong
And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up. Alice Walker
I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say. Socrates
To her surprise, Madeleine found herself contemplating this proposal. Why not tell her parents everything, curl up in the backseat of the car, and let them take her home? She could move into her old bedroom, with the sleigh bed and the Madeline wallpaper. She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. Jeffrey Eugenides
The Beautiful Poem"I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penisaffectionately. Knowing it has been inside you twice today makes mefeel beautiful. Richard Brautigan
She asked me why I never came, said she had heard all sorts of stories about me. This was only to gain time. Asked me, was I writing poems? About whom? I asked her. This confused her more and I felt sorry and mean. Turned off that valve at once and opened the spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus, invented and patented in all countries by Dante Alighieri... James Joyce
David Carradine quote: "If you cannot be a poet, be a poem."
If you cannot be a poet, be a poem. David Carradine
Anne Sexton quote: "Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem."
Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem. Anne Sexton
Muriel Rukeyser quote: "In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems...."
In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. Muriel Rukeyser
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will? Honore de Balzac
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. Jeanette Winterson

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