Poems Quotes

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

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

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.

Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began or originated in this form, as I think they did, because the poems get out of control.

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.

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

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.