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The original poem goes this way: Bullfight critics ranked in rows Crowd the enormous Plaza full But only one is there who knows And hes the man who fights the bull.

— John F. Kennedy poem

An unromantic poem I mean to make Of one who only lives for duty's sake.

— Henrik Ibsen poem

A poem is one undivided unimpeded expression fallen ripe into , and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom it was matured.

— Henry David Thoreau poem

GRUBSTREET — The name of a street near Moorsfield, London, much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems.

— Samuel Johnson poem

A poem based on the biblical character-

— George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) poem

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.

— T. S. Eliot poem

The third poem from the 1915 republished

— Robert Frost poem

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

— Henry Ward Beecher poem

When I first read the dictionary, I thought it was a long poem about everything.

— Steven Wright poem

If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.

— Fernando Pessoa poem

This poem [The Ancient Mariner] would not have taken so well if it had been called “The Old Sailor.”

— Samuel Butler (novelist) poem

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

— Edgar Allan Poe poem

Thou hast thy calling to some palace-floor, Most gracious singer of high poems! where The dancers will break footing, from the care Of watching up thy pregnant lips for more.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem

Collected Poems, ed. Fall River Press, 1993

— Emily Dickinson poem

I would venture to guess than Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

— Virginia Woolf poem

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

— Gore Vidal poem

NOTE: The following poem, translated by D. T. Suzuki, is not a complete Han-shan poem. It is lines 3-8 of a 14 line poem, numbered 271 by Red Pine.

— Hanshan poem

Dell Publishing (Delta), 1968 (Some poems in this edition first appeared elsewhere.)

— Richard Brautigan poem

As for literaryin general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.

— Kurt Vonnegut poem

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

— M. H. Abrams poem

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

— A. R. Ammons poem

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember.

— David Antin poem

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

— John Ashbery poem

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?

— John Barton poem

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 poem

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.

— Richard Bausch poem

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

— Peter Bichsel poem

For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.

— Amy Bloom poem

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

— Harold Bloom poem

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

— Stan Brakhage poem

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

— Anatole Broyard poem

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.

— Jane Campion poem

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

— David Carradine poem

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

— Wendy Cope poem

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

— Richard Corliss poem

I like poems that are little games.

— Peter Davison poem

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

— Grazia Deledda poem

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

— Rita Dove poem

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

— John Drinkwater poem

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

— Carol Ann Duffy poem

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

— Helen Dunmore poem

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

— Douglas Dunn poem

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

— Dietrich Fischer Dieskau poem

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

— Paul Engle poem

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

— James Fenton poem

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

— Brian Ferneyhough poem

I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've been interested in poems, but not so much for what the take home pay is, what you might sum up from them in moral or intellectual terms or whatever, but what's in the certain lines and how lines relates to other lines.

— David Ferry poem

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

— Leslie Fiedler poem

I did a short film at Outfest, 'Where Are the Dolls,' based on an Elizabeth Bishop poem done, where I play this woman who is sort of walking the streets and ends up alone dancing in a club. I have this hot and heavy scene with a very beautiful actress. It became very popular.

— Megan Follows poem

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

— William Gibson poem

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

— Dana Goodyear poem

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold poem

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker poem

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

— Gregory Harrison poem

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

— Jim Harrison poem

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems.

— John C. Hawkes poem

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

— Jane Hirshfield poem

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

— Alfonso A Ossorio poem

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

— Octavio Paz poem

I dont write poems. I dont give flowers to girls... yet.

— Rico Rodriguez poem

Dijonay while reciting one of her poems: Rip, rip, ree, kick em in the knee! Rip, rip, rass, kick him in theother knee!

— The Proud Family poem

In ancient Rome there was a poem / About a dog that had two bones / He picked at one he licked the other / He went in circles till he dropped dead.

— Devo poem

Oer seas that have no beaches To end their waves upon, I floated with twelve peaches, A sofa and a swan.Poem Oer seas that have no beaches

— Mervyn Peake poem

[first lines]Bert: All right, ladies an gents! Comical poem! Suitable for the occasion, extemporized and thought up before your very eyes! All right, ere we go![sings]Bert: Room ere for everyone. Gather around.[speaks]Bert: The constable - responstable! Now ow does that sound?[no response]Bert: Hm.[dashes over to Miss Lark, sings]Bert: Ello, Miss Lark, Ive got one for you.[speaks]Bert: Miss Lark... likes to walk... in the park... with Andrew![Andrew barks, then Bert tips his hat to him]Bert: Hello, Andrew.[turns to Mrs. Corry, sings]Bert: Ah, Mrs. Corry, a story for you.[speaks]Bert: Your daughters were shorter than you - but they grew!

— Mary Poppins 1964 poem

Algren: Hows your poem coming?Katsumoto: The end is proving difficult.

— The Last Samurai 2003 poem

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

— Paul Valery poem

This is actually from the poem We live in deeds by Philip James Bailey. This explains the strange pattern of capitalization.

— Aristotle poem

Hypodermic Sally: Patti Smith said that my poems were like glass shattering. I wrote a song with her. And then she wrote me off.

— American Horror Story poem

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

— C S Lewis A preface to Paradise Lost poem

Church: annoyed What do you want from me? A poem?! Its a planet made entirely out of ice. Its really fuckin cold.

— Red vs. Blue poem

Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers; this is a song sung by Aragorn, which was inspired by the Old English poem, The Wanderer.

— Horses poem

Mikey:: Now weve got copies of all your files and all your poems.clearing throat The lonely man in the mailbox by Agent F.

— Kappa Mikey poem

The Joker: [reciting his poem to Vicki] Im only laughing on the outside / My smile is just skin deep / If you could see inside Im really crying / You might join me for a weep.

— Batman 1989 poem

Dont be too harsh to these poems until theyre typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

— dylan thomas poem

[reciting a poem for the court]Minester: The golden hair that Gala wears is hers/Who would have thought it?/She swears its hers, and true she swears/For I know where she bought it!

— I Claudius TV Mini Series 1976 poem

This epitaph is from Under Ben Bulben, one of Yeats last poems. The last section of Under Ben Bulben describes Yeats resting-place-to-be. See W.B. Yeats at Wikisource and Wikipedia

— Epitaphs poem

Narrator: I wrote little haiku poems. I emailed them to everyone.

— Fight Club 1999 poem

Georgia: You and your facts. I cant understand how you can write poems to me and still cling to facts.

— Four Friends film poem

I wanted a perfect ending. Now Ive learned, the hard way, that some poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont have a clear beginning, middle and end.

— Gilda Radner poem

A journalist has a right and a duty, to destroy the golden calves he helps create.Chapter 5, Trade Secrets, A Poem About the Earl of Slander

— Haunted Palahniuk novel poem

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

— Marcus Aurelius poem

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

— e. e. cummings poem

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

— Helen Vendler poem

Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine. That title from a better man I stole: Ah, how much better, had I stoln the whole!Title page poem

— Robert Louis Stevenson poem

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