#poem

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it. ↗

— James Broughton

#absolute necessity #allowing #earliest #happen #invade

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#down #experienced #healing #hope #i

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. ↗

— James Buchan

#contain #does #importance #information #like

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