#poem

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#company #felt #had #i #leaves

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. ↗

— Philip Levine

#always #am #because #grew #i

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect. ↗

— Jules Massenet

#agreements #beautiful #i #music #must

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #poems #want #write

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. ↗

— Peter Porter

#each #illustrations #in other words #kind #only

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. ↗

— George Murray

#composing #develop #fragmented #hunter #i

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#advent #conveys #message #much #poem

It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape. ↗

— Mark Strand

#form #hardly #merely #out #poem

to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go ↗

— Mary Oliver

#poem #poetry #life

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. ↗

— Paul Celan

#basic #between #cannot #difference #hands