Poem Quotes

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good, Words, Speak

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

Wisdom, Begins, Ends

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

Wrong, Sense, Begins

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost

End, Writing, Started

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau

Lost, Show, Though

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost

Life, Great, Wisdom

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

Person, Naked, Poet

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright

Everything, Thought, Reading

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx

Days, Actually, September

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington

Writing, Dignity, Race

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman

Great, Shall, Flesh

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Morning, Saying, Writing

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
Walt Whitman

Greatest, Themselves, United

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster

True, Nothing, Together

Every old poem is sacred.
Horace

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery

Finished, Abandoned

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Carl Sandburg

Woman, Give, Child

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
Gore Vidal

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Time, History, Memories

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Spike Milligan

Thought, Why, Reading

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life, Perfect, Feminine

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
J. K. Rowling

Poetry, Read, Touch

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle

Words, Head, Written

Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophy, Middle, Begins

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Love, Marriage, Happy

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Science, Idea, Scientific

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.
Willie Nelson

Time, Old, Social

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
John Barton

Why, Expect, Results

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