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Poem Quotes

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Poet Poem Interfere Baggage Cultural

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

Know Poem Particular Says Restate

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

Moment Me Poem Inspires

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

Performance Believe Wrong Seem Poem

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Poetry Poem Much Prose Sentence

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life Perfect Structure Being Poem

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Poetry Enough Blanket Poem Needle

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Wonderful Poem Making Poems About

The moment of change is the only poem.

Change Moment Poetry Poem Only

I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

Think Moments Person Rare Poet Poem

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Eyes Poetry See Ears Poem Hear

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

Dark Poem Redeem Part Meant

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Anatole Broyard

Service City Rome Poem Pressed

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Paris First Review Poem Published

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

Travel World Think You Write Poem

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

Long Boring Sharp Poem Elements

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Poetry Born Despair Poem Novel

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Music Long Write She Two Poem

A perfect poem you can't pin down and say, 'This is exactly what it meant to me.' It's not a self-help manual.

Alice McDermott

Me You Perfect Down Say Poem

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

Own Force May Being Poem Creature

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