#poem

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost ↗

— Kami Garcia

#lena #love #poem #beauty

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#bureaucrat #does #like #poem #something

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. ↗

— John Updike

#goes #man #middle-aged #middle-aged man #off

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ↗

— Paul Valery

#abandoned #finished #never #only #poem

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative. ↗

— Peter Davison

#better #better now #i #indicative #instance

I like poems that are little games. ↗

— Peter Davison

#games #i #like #little #poems

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget. ↗

— Peter Davison

#enough #forget #going #had #i

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. ↗

— Peter Davison

#poems #reason #remembered #will #writes

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. ↗

— Rita Dove

#according #color #day #drafts #each

In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. ↗

— Rita Dove

#enjoy #i #i love #lots #love