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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Quotes by Thom Gunn

What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.

Quotes by Sherman Alexie

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

Quotes by Philip Levine

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Quotes by Mata Hari

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Quotes by Mark Strand

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

Quotes by Mark Strand

A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

Quotes by Joshua Cohen

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Quotes by Jose Bergamin

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

Quotes by James Schuyler

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.

Quotes by James Schuyler

A picture is a poem without words.

Quotes by Horace

Every old poem is sacred.

Quotes by Horace

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Quotes by Harold Bloom

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

Quotes by Douglas Dunn

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Quotes by Douglas Dunn

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

Quotes by David Carradine

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

Quotes by C. K. Williams

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

Quotes by Beck

What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?

Quotes by Beeban Kidron

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

Quotes by Anne Waldman

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Quotes by Anatole Broyard

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate.

Quotes by Allen Tate

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