Love Poems quotes:

Send

More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild -- Diane di Prima
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems -- Carol Ann Duffy
Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself -- Daphne Gottlieb
Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love. -- Richard Hugo
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. -- Emily Dickinson
I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move. -- Rita Dove
--
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form. -- Etgar Keret
It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship. -- John Fuller
I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday. -- Andrea Gibson
The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader. To read Elbe's poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive. -- Jesse Lee Kercheval
They loved, and quarreled, and made up, and loved, and fought, and were true to each other and untrue. She made him the happiest man in the whole world and the most wretched, and after a few years she died, and then, when he was thirty, he died, too. But by that time Catullus had invented the love poem. -- Tom Stoppard
Well, Thanksgiving we'll all gather at my house for dinner and we usually do Christmas at Beau's house. My mom is still feisty and kicking. She's 92. I saw her last night and she published a book at 90. It's a wonderful book called "You Caught Me Kissing" and it's basically love-poems that she wrote for my dad. It's more than that, it's a wonderful book. -- Jeff Bridges
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. -- Carol Ann Duffy
Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. -- Niki de St. Phalle
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. -- Mario Benedetti
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up. -- Peleg Top
I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best. -- James Tate
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things. -- Rita Dove
I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths. -- Shakira
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing. -- Nathaniel Philbrick
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
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't. -- Dylan Thomas
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war. -- James Fenton
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive. -- C. K. Williams
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! -- Wislawa Szymborska
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. -- Robert Morgan
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital. -- George Steiner
I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry. -- Billy Collins
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph. -- Garrison Keillor
I believed in fictional characters as if they were a part of real life. Poetry was important, too. My parents had memorized poems from their days attending school in New York City and loved reciting them. We all enjoyed listening to these poems and to music as well. -- Alice McDermott
A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a treatise on cosmic truth... We can best be exact about the cosmic things - God and truth, beauty, eternity and love - by not talking directly about them. -- Miller Williams
That's what poems are for, unlivable love. -- Tess Gallagher
There are either poems about sex/love or God. -- Robert Hass
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. -- Eileen Myles
I began just writing poems and then fell in love with the form. -- Simone Muench
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems. -- Antonio Gala
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them. -- Hans Christian Andersen
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world. -- Matthea Harvey
The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen. -- M.F. Moonzajer
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity. -- Hayden Carruth
I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me. -- Mary Ruefle
Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant. -- Daniel Handler
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection. -- Irving Layton

Send