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Poem Quotes (page 7)

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. James Laughlin
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. James Schuyler
Muriel Rukeyser quote: "Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by..."
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. Caroline Kennedy
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. Harold Bloom
John Barton quote: "I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious..."
I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. John Barton
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem. Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov quote: "I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. Howard Nemerov
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. A. R. Ammons
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. A. R. Ammons
M. H. Abrams quote: "If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means,..."
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. M. H. Abrams
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. Virginia Woolf
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know. Tennessee Williams
Arthur Rimbaud quote: "And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea,..."
And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures Arthur Rimbaud
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity. Amy Tan

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