As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other. Mary Oliver American Poet More Mary Oliver Quotes 1
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. Rainer Maria Rilke German Poet More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes 1
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. Jack Prelutsky American Poet More Jack Prelutsky Quotes 0
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor. Jack Prelutsky American Poet More Jack Prelutsky Quotes 0
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do. Jack Prelutsky American Poet More Jack Prelutsky Quotes 0
I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. George Murray Canadian Poet More George Murray Quotes 0
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. Story Musgrave American Astronaut More Story Musgrave Quotes 0
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. Edvard Munch Norwegian Artist More Edvard Munch Quotes 0
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. Henry Rollins American Musician More Henry Rollins Quotes 0
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. Al Purdy Canadian Poet More Al Purdy Quotes 0
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. Walt Whitman American Poet More Walt Whitman Quotes 0
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. Hu Shih Chinese Philosopher More Hu Shih Quotes 0
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. Wole Soyinka Dramatist More Wole Soyinka Quotes 0
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf British Author More Virginia Woolf Quotes 0
I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book. Fay Wray American Actress More Fay Wray Quotes 0
Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf British Author More Virginia Woolf Quotes 0
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson American Poet More Anne Stevenson Quotes 0
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. Anne Stevenson American Poet More Anne Stevenson Quotes 0
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. Anne Stevenson American Poet More Anne Stevenson Quotes 0
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. Anne Stevenson American Poet More Anne Stevenson Quotes 0
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life. Mark Strand American Poet More Mark Strand Quotes 0
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. Mark Strand American Poet More Mark Strand Quotes 0
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. Anne Stevenson American Poet More Anne Stevenson Quotes 0