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Top 34 Poem Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.”

― Allen Tate

“Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.”

― Anatole Broyard

“I want the poem to be an experience – for both the listener and for myself.”

― Anne Waldman

“I did that Grammys thing – I did a little freeform poem.”

― Beck

“A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.”

― C. K. Williams

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

― Carol Ann Duffy

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”

― David Carradine

“Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.”

― Douglas Dunn

“A poet’s cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.”

― Douglas Dunn

“A really good poem is full of music.”

― Eric Whitacre

“A picture is a poem without words.”

― Horace

“Every old poem is sacred.”

― Horace

“I don’t see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.”

― James Fenton

“However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can’t be much to it.”

― James Schuyler

“I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.”

― James Schuyler

“The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.”

― Jose Bergamin

“A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.”

― Joshua Cohen

“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.”

― Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection.”

― Kevin Young

“Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.”

― Mark Strand

“Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.”

― Mary Karr

“I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.”

― Mary Oliver

“I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.”

― Michael Madsen

“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”

― Pablo Neruda

“But most commonly, it’s one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.”

― Philip Levine

“For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.”

― Rita Dove

“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

“My favorite poem ever was ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe.”

― Ross Lynch

“What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.”

― Sherman Alexie

“I published my first poem in ‘The Paris Review’ in 1980.”

― Siri Hustvedt

“Ginsberg’s Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.”

― Thom Gunn

“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”

― Walt Whitman

“I’m uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.”

― Yusef Komunyakaa

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