Poems Quotes

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.

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.

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people.

I like poems that are complex.

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.