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Poem Quotes

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem Picture Quote #1

And for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me Picture Quote #1

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener Picture Quote #1

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet Picture Quote #1

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed Picture Quote #1

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem Picture Quote #1

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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity Picture Quote #1

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy Picture Quote #1

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words Picture Quote #1

One poem or story doesn’t matter one way or the other. It’s the process of writing and life that matters Picture Quote #1

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape Picture Quote #1

No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing Picture Quote #1

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It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem once in a while. When we open wide our minds and fix our gaze on the universe, we fix our gaze on our own life Picture Quote #1

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader Picture Quote #1

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing... is discovering Picture Quote #1

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language Picture Quote #1

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem Picture Quote #1

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter Picture Quote #1

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No song or poem will bear my mother’s name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother’s stories Picture Quote #1

If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry Picture Quote #1

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off Picture Quote #1

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity Picture Quote #1

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument Picture Quote #1

At the point where I’m trying to force something and it’s not happening, and I’m getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar Picture Quote #1

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting... Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went Picture Quote #1

Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly Picture Quote #1

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song Picture Quote #1

Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up Picture Quote #1

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words Picture Quote #1

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime Picture Quote #1

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When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem (Poem Quotes) And for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me (Poem Quotes) No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener (Poem Quotes) Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet (Poem Quotes) There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed (Poem Quotes) It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem (Poem Quotes) The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity (Poem Quotes) The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy (Poem Quotes) One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words (Poem Quotes) One poem or story doesn’t matter one way or the other. It’s the process of writing and life that matters (Poem Quotes) My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape (Poem Quotes) No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing (Poem Quotes) It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem once in a while. When we open wide our minds and fix our gaze on the universe, we fix our gaze on our own life (Poem Quotes) There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader (Poem Quotes) For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing... is discovering (Poem Quotes) This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language (Poem Quotes) Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem (Poem Quotes) I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter (Poem Quotes) No song or poem will bear my mother’s name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother’s stories (Poem Quotes) If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry (Poem Quotes) To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off (Poem Quotes) For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity (Poem Quotes) Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument (Poem Quotes) At the point where I’m trying to force something and it’s not happening, and I’m getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar (Poem Quotes) Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting... Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went (Poem Quotes) Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly (Poem Quotes) Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song (Poem Quotes) Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up (Poem Quotes) A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words (Poem Quotes) There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime (Poem Quotes)

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