Publishing a volume of verse
Publishing a volume of verse
is like dropping a rose-petal down
the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
– Don Marquis -
Category: Poems Quotes
No poems can please
No poems can
please for long or live
that are written by water-drinkers.
- Horace -
The poems may be used
The poems… may
be used as a barometer,
but let us not forget that he
is also part of the weather.
– Lionel Trilling -
Poems is nobody
Poems is nobody’s
business except the poet’s,
and everybody else can fuck off.
– Philip Larkin -
poems is plucking at the heartstrings
poems is plucking at the heartstrings,
and making music with them.
- Dennis Gabor -
A poems work is to name the unnameable
A poems work is to name the unnameable,
to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments,
shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
- Salman Rushdie -
poems is just the evidence of life
poems is just the evidence of life.
If your life is burning well,
poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen -