Poem Quotes

To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare’s, the Cornish sea.

Poem is a phoenix, whose wings are painted in the colors of nostalgia.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.

You left me with nothing. But the gift to write the most beautiful sad poems.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn’t write anything.

If this was my last poem I’d dedicate it to myself.

All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.

It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.

I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.