Poems Quotes
- Page 3I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
Henry Rollins
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.
James Welch
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Philip Levine
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.
Story Musgrave
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.
Andrew Motion
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
Philip Dunne
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
Rita Dove
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.
George Murray
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
Anne Stevenson
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
Helen Dunmore
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
Andrew Motion
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
Simon Armitage
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.
Sharon Olds
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia Woolf
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
P. J. Harvey
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.
Andrew Motion
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
Norman MacCaig
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
Mark Strand
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
Carol Ann Duffy
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Dylan Thomas
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.
Helen Dunmore