Quotes About Poems

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

I like poems and keep sharing them online.

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense pleasure out of drawing connections between pieces and poems and literature and ideas.

My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.