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Poem Quotes

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Richard Corliss

Space White Air Production Poem

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

You Top Finish Box Poem Shut

Every old poem is sacred.

Old Sacred Poem Every

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

David Carradine

Poetry You Poet Cannot Poem

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.

Decision Broken You Order Poet Poem

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

James Broughton

Me Magic Out Poem Sing Itself

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

Little Poem Did Grammys Thing

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

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Prayer Night Others Poem Read Every

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Strength Page Call Poem Poems Any

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

Long Say Write Level Poem Been

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Stephane Mallarme

Words Poetry Ideas You Poem Make

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

Thought Years Whisper Poem Many

I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.

Know Release Poem Finished

It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.

Look More Old Poem Yours Even

What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.

Discipline Trying Feelings Poem Fit

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

Myself Experience Want Poem Listener

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Memories History Time Man Poem

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Challenge Find First English Poem

A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection.

Connection Poem Testimony Solace

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Poetry Sometimes Talk Within Poem

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

Trying You Say Write Always Poem

I redo the body of my poem like someone who tries to cure her own wound.

Alejandra Pizarnik

Someone Body Own Her Poem Cure

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

Carol Ann Duffy

Go Say Always See Fine Poem

What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?

Internet Point Teaching Poem Piece

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