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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Marianne Moore

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Anne Sexton

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

Rita Dove

86% of people like this quote

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

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In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Marianne Moore

80% of people like this quote

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

78% of people like this quote

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Anne Sexton

74% of people like this quote

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.

James Schuyler

73% of people like this quote

A picture is a poem without words.

Horace

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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

Wallace Stevens

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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

65% of people like this quote

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

William Kingdon Clifford

63% of people like this quote