#poem

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. ↗

— Rita Dove

#heard #i #many #overheard #poem

The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#able #century #connect #deep #deep way

It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time. ↗

— Philip Dunne

#beautiful #easy #england #italy #living

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. ↗

— Paul Engle

#bled #delight #drip #grief #head

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#direct #english #heart #how #i

Every single soul is a poem. ↗

— Michael Franti

#every #poem #single #single soul #soul

Qui croit Pouvoir faire du miel Sans partager le destin des abeilles? ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#destiny #poem #change

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. ↗

— Horace

#drinkers #live #long #please #poems