#poem

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. ↗

— James Laughlin

#any #course #good #his #i

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#anything #before #college #comedic #drama

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

— Jim Harrison

#first #got #i #magazine #nation

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#done #entirely #gets #i #ignored

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

#ideas #make #poem #words #you

Many of my poems are not sexual. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#poems #sexual

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#because #days #favourite #hath #poem

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. ↗

— James Merrill

#elements #find #forbidding #greek #helped