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Poem Quotes

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Wisdom Delight Poem Begins Ends

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

Sixty Poem Behind Every Drafts

After the last line of a poem, nothing follows except literary criticism.

Criticism Nothing Line Last Poem

The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.

People Important Poem Who Affects

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

Writing Dignity Race Poem Prosper

The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

Book Story Delight Function Poem

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing.

People Me New Affect Jersey Poem

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

View More Poem Than Demanding Prose

A picture is a poem without words.

Art Words Picture Without Poem

It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.

You Country Interview Poet Poem

Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.

Music Results Own Poem Been Set

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

Laurie Anderson

Dream Said Write Secret Poem Epic

The idea of a poem as a message in a bottle means that it's sent out towards some future reader, and the reader who opens that bottle becomes the addressee of the literary text.

Future Out Bottle Poem Idea Text

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Wallace Stevens

Nature Meaning Need Things Poem

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Science Poem Speaking Idea Poetic

For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.

Baltasar Kormakur

Me End Interesting Long Dream Poem

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

Poetry Results Fast Why Expect Poem

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

Man Young Young Man Bring Poem Off

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Poetry Wrong Sense Poem Begins Lump

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

Feel Always Whatever Poem Necessary

Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.

Impact Strategy Way Line Order Poem

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Writing You Know Write Going Poem

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.

Poetry Thinking Feelings Human Poem

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

Will Reason Remembered Poem Your

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