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Quotes About Poems

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems, And what is invisible stays that way.
~ Mark Strand
Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.
~ Rachel Zucker
Old fan scribbled with poems – shredded by summer's end. 232
~ Matsuo Bash?
In order to enter that zone we must finally let go of the embodied distances that place grants. But what does this do to what we commonly think of as the past? I think of cyberspace, which is no place at all, as akin to the dark imaginary out of which poems come, their rhythms, their discrete music punctuating the inner life.
~ Unknown
Tao Te Ching says that it is only through retreat rather than pursuit, through inaction rather than action, that we acquire wisdom. "Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused." The poems, still widely read, have been hailed as a hermit manifesto for more than two thousand years.
~ Michael Finkel
We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.
~ Michael Palin
Perry Fitzgerald's sermons were like dharma talks: he spoke as if casually following a train of thought, telling stories, recalling poems, and explicating spiritual and theological concepts as they occurred to him. On the page, however, the skillful construction of this conversational style was obvious.
~ Michelle Huneven
Los críticos ven en los poemas la expresión de los sentimientos naturales humanos que prevalecían en el país antes de la incorporación de los ideales confucianos de corrección y moderación.
~ Unknown
The day you took the test I would have told you this: that you had no time to listen to questions hunting out the answers in your files is surely the kind of irony that poems are made of
~ Miller Williams
Dor. So you think, Lysidas, that all the wit and beauty are to be found in serious poems, and that comic pieces are trifles which deserve no praise? Ur. I certainly do not think so. Tragedy no doubt is very fine when it is well written; but comedy has also its charms, and I believe that one is no less difficult than the other.
~ Moliere
When I am dead, even then, I will still love you, I will wait in these poems, When I am dead, even then I am still listening to you.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
THEN When I am dead, even then, I will still love you, I will wait in these poems, When I am dead, even then I am still listening to you. I will still be making poems for you out of silence; silence will be falling into that silence, it is building music.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The world may not appreciate my works. But the angels, pure and wicked, praise them daily and turn them into universal poems.
~ Unknown
Sing these songs, and they will renew you from head to toe, from heart to mind. Pray these poems, and they will sustain you on the long, hard but exhilarating road of Christian discipleship.
~ Unknown
The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are brave enough - to change it.
~ Nicola Morgan
other worlds. To adventure, and kindness, and cruelty. Cruelty that we usually think we face alone, but we don't. We discover that by sharing with each other we find strength to go on. The poems are the play's first hint of the global misogyny that we women face.
~ Ntozake Shange
The poems introduce the girls to other kinds of people of color, other worlds. To adventure, and kindness, and cruelty. Cruelty that we usually think we face alone, but we don't. We discover that by sharing with each other we find strength to go on. The poems are the play's first hint of the global misogyny that we women face.
~ Ntozake Shange
The other chief Romans were Catullus and Horace: Catullus—a dozen short poems and stretches of the Attis—because the young are prone (at least I was) to identify themselves with him when feeling angry, lonely, misunderstood, besotted, ill-starred or crossed in love. I probably adored Horace for the opposite reason; and taught myself a number of the Odes and translated a few of them into awkward English sapphics and alcaics.
~ Unknown
The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.
~ Paul Auster
It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father, your ancestors taking to you and through you. Some of it is primal, some of it is hallucinatory bullshit. That madness those boys rapping ain't nothing but urban folklore. They retelling stories passed down from chicken coop to apartment stoop to Ford coupe. Hear that rhyme, boy. Shit, I could get down and rap if I had to. MC Big Mama Osteoporosis in the house.
~ Paul Beatty
I will sing from the sage's chair by the Norn's sacred spring; I watched and listened, I looked and thought about the words of the wise when they talked of runes and what they reveal at the High One's hall, in the High One's hall— here is what I heard… HÁVAMÁL (SAYINGS OF THE HIGH ONE), POEMS OF THE "ELDER EDDA
~ Unknown
Only to read their letters, notes and poems, not to see them smiling … They distilled their wisdom in writing, not in prizes … For a kind of heavenly sense made clear, for an hour, deep inside us: That's why we read the wise.
~ Unknown