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Poem Quotes

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Peace Bread Poem Making Goes Flour

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

Strong Enough Poem Text Even Every

'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.

Late Wonder Poet Poem Text Alphabet

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.

Great Reaction Room Poem Different

I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

Day Color Feel Up Keep Poem

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

Michael Ondaatje

Door Ending Open See I See Poem

One who writes a poem writes it because the language prompts, or simply dictates, the next line.

Language Next Line Because Poem Who

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

Reading Audience Poem Aloud Precise

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Why Question Where Poem After Came

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Poetry Never Abandoned Poem Only

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

Think Help Know Something Poem

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

Anticipation Palace Room Poem Like

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Thought Poem Close Come Telling How

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Me Sound First Being Poem Simply

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Law Philosophy Find Analysis Poem

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Carol Ann Duffy

I Am Write Always Poem Am Pleased

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Focus Uncomfortable Poet Poem

I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

Character First Poem Every Played

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

Mind Write Shape Something Poem

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

John Drinkwater

Saying Short Long Poem Just Poe

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

Morning Late Get Poem Almost Read

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

Discovery Write Poem Make I Write

I wrote a poem on my leg once, on the skin.

Skin Leg Poem Once Wrote

A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right vocal cords - brilliantly and shatteringly conveyed.

More Never Right Poem Than Vocal

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