Quotes About Poem

It is what man does not know of GodComposes the visible poem of the world.

For the scientist the analytical process does not diminish the splendour of what he or she sees. Every detail added is an extra stanza added to a great epic poem, one that is never complete, nor yet ever tedious in its particulars

as the bomb for Bohr and Oppenheimer was a weapon of death that might also end war and redeem mankind—is one way the poem expresses the paradox.

Lincoln chuckled yet again. "What's that poem you're always quoting? About parents?" Teddy nodded. "Larkin.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Frey winced. Hello, Sumarbrander. I didn't mean to ignore you. Yeah, yeah. Well, Magnus here is going to get Bragi to write an epic poem about me! Frey raised an eyebrow. You are? Uh - That's right! Jack huffed. Frey never got Bragi to write an epic poem about me! The only thing he ever gave me was a stupid Hallmark Sword's Day card. Added to my mental notes: there was such a thing as Sword's Day. I silently cursed the greeting-card industry.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs--puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is fatal to a poem.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Paradise - I see flowers from the cottage where I lie.

There's a poem by Borges that begins, Ya no es mágico el mundo. Te han dejado . The world's not magical anymore. You've been left. He says left , an everyday word, a word that makes no noise.

You wrote in a poem, "I love your body," as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more than the senses together, an enveloping sense itself sensuous, as if all the body made sense.

Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem.

Minou, minou, en poil de chou, t'as le cul qui gèle sur ta colline, fais-toi un lit d'homme, t'as des griffes comme une charrue et ta langue râpe, c'est Janet qui te cause; je te rognerai les griffes à coup de serpe, moi. »

He compuesto un poema a la victoria: ¡Quién lo hubiera creído! ¡El doctor MacRae ha sonreído! ¡Es verdad!

That night they left the tooth beneath his pillow and El Ratoncito Pérez came to retrieve it, leaving Luca a poem and a new toothbrush in its place.

It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to find oneself again, to sleep in the arms of a beautiful student whose name one didn't know, to fall back to sleep over a love poem-that was called existence. The harmonics of artistic creation, of fertile sensibility, of anticipated events-history in movement-that was called a privilege.

Silence, and then, How old are you? Maddy asks, and Arthur tells her eighty-five. Then he asks her how old she is. Eighteen, she says. Almost. Eighteen. The word is a poem.

One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.

It isn't a good price, that you pay for writing a poem.