Poem Quotes

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.

An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.

In Surojit's film, 'Pagol Hawar Bodol Din,' I am a villager. Victor Banerjee is also part of the film. The uniqueness of 'PHBD' is that the whole film is like a poem.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand

The tale is one of an evil time, When souls were fettered and thought was crime, And heresy's whisper above its breath Meant shameful scourging and bonds and death!

At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden. It is more as if you remade the garden every day.

A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

A poem is the realization of love. . . .

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.