Quotes About Poem

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

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

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the end, but it drilled into my head that my voice is important.

As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.

In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we sometimes forget that.

I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in love with my mother.

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

I have a favorite poem. From Rudyard Kipling. It's called 'L'Envoi.'

When you break a poem down in order to perform it, you have to engage closely with many aspects of what it's about, how it works, how it's constructed and so on. If you write a poem alongside it, to complement it, you start to feel poetry's method, poetry's way of looking at things.

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

In a long poem or a sequence of poems, you're trying to formalize your obsessions and give them a shape and a name. The key is to realize if the connections you are making are ones with resonance.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.

All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.