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The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. -- David Whyte
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
When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out. -- Derek Walcott
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. -- Donald Hall
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. -- Walt Disney
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written. -- Wallace Stevens
I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem. -- Mark Nepo
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a -- Joseph Campbell
I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery. -- Matthea Harvey
Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an act Through which few labor, which no men retract. This passion is the scholar's heritage -- Yvor Winters
Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great poems for years, but there aren't a lot of good comics. I like trying to write them. -- Neil Gaiman
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems. -- Norbert Wiener
And your very flesh shall be a great poem. -- Walt Whitman
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. -- Liam Neeson
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest. -- Wilhelm Reich
A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. -- Spike Jonze
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. -- David Whyte
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. -- Paul Nurse
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email. -- Ellen Bass
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. -- Thom Gunn
One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.' -- Jill Scott
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. -- Helen Dunmore
If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation. -- Bayard Taylor
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. -- Robert Frost
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. -- Sharon Olds
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them. -- Anne Stevenson
I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time. -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. -- Antonio Machado
I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings. -- Honore de Balzac
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. -- William H. Gass
I was intoxicated by the romantic poetry of our great writers. I arranged the world according to my private use, looking at it through the poems I had devoured. -- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

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