I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say. - Socrates I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't. - Dylan Thomas

His conversation was full of imagination, and very often in limitation of ther Persian, and Arabic writers, he invented tales of wonderful fancy and passion. At other times he repeated my fsvorite poems or drew me out into arguments, wich he suported with great ingenuity. - Mary Shelley Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. - Marilyn Hacker I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not. - P J Harvey In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. - Peter Porter There's not too much difference be...

In the end he became as fragmentary as the poems of Sappho he never succeeded in restoring, and finally one morning he looked up into the face of the woman who'd been the greatest love of his life and failed to recognize her. And then there was another kind of blow inside his head; blood pooled in his brain for the last time, washing even the last fragments of his self away. - Jeffrey Eugenides There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know. - Robert Fitzgerald On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. - Laurence Housman Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world. - Norman Maclean Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. - W S Merwin You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or ...

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator. - Lemony Snicket I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors. - Carl Sandburg Dread not to climb the mountain, for the higher you rise, your load will lighten; for once on top, easy be the stroll to the meadow down below- Quotes and Poems in Black and White by Nancy B. Brewer - Nancy B Brewer A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality. ...

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. - Paul Auster Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson. - Ann Beattie One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant. - Lemony Snicket I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens to us. - Kate Bernheimer Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits o...

She asked me why I never came, said she had heard all sorts of stories about me. This was only to gain time. Asked me, was I writing poems? About whom? I asked her. This confused her more and I felt sorry and mean. Turned off that valve at once and opened the spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus, invented and patented in all countries by Dante Alighieri.. - James Joyce Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. - John Barton It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. - Philip Dunne I can't help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some poems about the sunset. The sunset isn't fucking married. - A J Jacobs I wish I had eyes that changed colors from blue to gray, and...