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Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
Cesare Lombroso

God, Alone, Once

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
Robert Penn Warren

Deepest, Attempt, Hazardous

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Alfred Whitney Griswold

God, Law, Whether

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
Eyvind Johnson

Life, Work, Often

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
Douglas Dunn

Reading, Audience, Aloud

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
Douglas Dunn

Poet, Interfere, Cultural

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
Stephen Spender

Understand, Rich, Read

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting

Music, Others, Picture

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery

Sad, Cannot, Wants

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.
Tracy K. Smith

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
C. Day Lewis

Good, May, Earth

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
Richard Rosen

Strength, Point, Gave

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.
Richard Corliss

Space, White, Air

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
Paul Celan

True, Cannot, Between

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
Jules Massenet

Music, Respect, Beautiful

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