#poems

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. ↗

— Al Purdy

#either #poems #survival

My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#letters #men #other #people #poems

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#earth #knows #like #poems #returned

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#being nice #between #cards #change #cute

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #could #going #guess #however

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#friendly #i #i can #like #only

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow. ↗

— Martin Gore

#i #just #music #poems #put

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems. ↗

— Roger McGough

#computer #i #many #poems #switching

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#book #funny #funny way #intense #less

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#adult #apprehension #becoming #excitement #great