Poem
A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
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Poem Quotations
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
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan
A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright
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
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
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
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost
Poem Translations
poem in Afrikaans is gedig
poem in Dutch is gedicht, dichtwerk, vers
poem in German is Gedicht
poem in Hungarian is vers
poem in Italian is poesia
poem in Latin is poema poematis, carmen
poem in Portuguese is poema
poem in Spanish is poema
poem in Swedish is dikt
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