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Great Poems Quotes

And your very flesh shall be a great poem Picture Quote #1

When you get a class reciting some great poems, it’ll tear your heart out Picture Quote #1

One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, ‘Oh, boy. I like this.’ Picture Quote #1

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on ‘The Writer’s Almanac’ and I’ve heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That’s one of the great gifts of email Picture Quote #1

I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: ‘Di Great Insohreckshan’ and ‘Mekin Histri.’ I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time Picture Quote #1

There’s so much to think about when you’re becoming an adult, and there’s so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement Picture Quote #1

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As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store Picture Quote #1

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation Picture Quote #1

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends Picture Quote #1

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that’s a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don’t like the melodies, and vice versa Picture Quote #1

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition Picture Quote #1

You’ll be a poorer person all your life if you don’t know some of the great stories and great poems Picture Quote #1

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I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem Picture Quote #1

I don’t think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery Picture Quote #1

Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an act Through which few labor, which no men retract. This passion is the scholar’s heritage Picture Quote #1

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it Picture Quote #1

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it’s really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting Picture Quote #1

I’m a great poet. I don’t put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings Picture Quote #1

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I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured Picture Quote #1

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems Picture Quote #1

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body Picture Quote #1

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem Picture Quote #1

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest Picture Quote #1

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age Picture Quote #1

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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex Picture Quote #1

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past Picture Quote #1

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems Picture Quote #1

I don’t think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery Picture Quote #1

The weakness of art is that great poems do not ennoble politics, as they certainly should, and the trouble with politics is that they inspire poets only to mockery and scorn Picture Quote #1

You’ll be a poorer person all your life if you don’t know some of the great stories and great poems Picture Quote #1

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem (Great Poems Quotes) When you get a class reciting some great poems, it’ll tear your heart out (Great Poems Quotes) One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, ‘Oh, boy. I like this.’ (Great Poems Quotes) Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on ‘The Writer’s Almanac’ and I’ve heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That’s one of the great gifts of email (Great Poems Quotes) I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: ‘Di Great Insohreckshan’ and ‘Mekin Histri.’ I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time (Great Poems Quotes) There’s so much to think about when you’re becoming an adult, and there’s so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement. (Great Poems Quotes) As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. (Great Poems Quotes) Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation. (Great Poems Quotes) Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. (Great Poems Quotes) If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that’s a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don’t like the melodies, and vice versa. (Great Poems Quotes) However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition (Great Poems Quotes) You’ll be a poorer person all your life if you don’t know some of the great stories and great poems. (Great Poems Quotes) I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem. (Great Poems Quotes) I don’t think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery. (Great Poems Quotes) Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an act Through which few labor, which no men retract. This passion is the scholar’s heritage (Great Poems Quotes) A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it (Great Poems Quotes) If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it’s really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. (Great Poems Quotes) I’m a great poet. I don’t put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. (Great Poems Quotes) I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured (Great Poems Quotes) I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems (Great Poems Quotes) The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body (Great Poems Quotes) Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem (Great Poems Quotes) The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest (Great Poems Quotes) We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age (Great Poems Quotes) I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex (Great Poems Quotes) Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past (Great Poems Quotes) The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems (Great Poems Quotes) I don’t think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery (Great Poems Quotes) The weakness of art is that great poems do not ennoble politics, as they certainly should, and the trouble with politics is that they inspire poets only to mockery and scorn (Great Poems Quotes) You’ll be a poorer person all your life if you don’t know some of the great stories and great poems (Great Poems Quotes)

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