Poem Quotes

You're never going to know who wrote which poem. That's a secret we're going to die with. - Jim Harrison

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. - Unknown

You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.' - Calvin Trillin

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. - Stephane Mallarme

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. - Charles Olson

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. - Dylan Thomas

Yo, this is my story, this is my song, And to them rudypoots don't attempt to try this at home, It's just a poem until y'all learn right from wrong, Know when to bless a situation, when to grab the chrome, But it's back on, another stormy night in Atlanta, Georgia, Overcast, but on behalf of Outkast, I cordially, Invite you to an emotion filled theater, Bring your umbrella cause young fella it gets no weirder. - Outkast

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself. - Seamus Heaney

Yes
you heard correctly. As a matter of fact, the first time I was on TNT and I
did the poem... I was in a suit of armor. ... Vince McMahon said, in the commercial he said, 'Lanny
that was great, I want you to do that before every match, I want you to do a
poem.' I thought to myself, well okay, that's a little tough on a babyface...
so I thought to myself, Al Costello used to throw those boomerangs (with The
Fabulous Kangaroos) ... and I know that, my brother and I used to gouge each
other's eyes trying to get those things, you know? Whenever you get free
stuff... so I started out throwing these little rolled-up scrolls but they
weren't really flying. So I said, I've gotta throw a frisbee. So I bought 500
frisbees and I wrote a poem on them. And then the marketing people from World
Wrestling Federation said, 'Do you mind if we market these?' Do I mind if you
market these? I said I was dying to get my feet wet in that. So they. - Lanny Poffo