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" A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right vocal cords - brilliantly and shatteringly conveyed. "
Jonathan Miles
" A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part. "
C. K. Williams
" After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism. "
Joseph Brodsky
" And your very flesh shall be a great poem. "
Walt Whitman
" An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. "
John Barton
" A picture is a poem without words. "
Horace
" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "
Robert Frost
" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "
Robert Frost
" A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection. "
Kevin Young
" A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. "
Hermann Ebbinghaus
" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "
Paul Valery
" A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. "
Anne Stevenson
" A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. "
Wallace Stevens
" A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it. "
Tony Harrison
" A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem. "
Douglas Dunn
" A really good poem is full of music. "
Eric Whitacre
" As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south. "
Carolyn Kizer
" A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. "
John Millington Synge
" Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed. "
Billy Collins
" Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it. "
Philip Levine
" But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. "
Andrew Motion
" But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. "
Philip Levine
" Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
" 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
" Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? "
Dorothy Fields
" Every old poem is sacred. "
Horace
" Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it. "
Mary Karr
" Every single soul is a poem. "
Michael Franti
" For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. "
Rita Dove
" For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit. "
Tracy K. Smith
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