Poem Messages
Then I did Japanese Death Poem. I played seven or eight different characters. It's the most challenging thing I've ever done on stage.
Austin PeckDoes a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
B. F. SkinnerI'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
John RatzenbergerTo read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio PazA so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Friedrich Von SchlegelThe young Wolf was one of those people who would recite a poem to themselves a hundred times, until they had found the music that goes with it.
Dietrich Fischer-DieskauMy sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.
Philip LevineRobert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
Howard NemerovHow does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Allen TateNo, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.
Leo OrnsteinOne ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
John BartonTranslation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
Marilyn HackerI consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.
John BartonWe hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. MacaulayA poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne StevensonA revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
Adrienne RichTo name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
Wallace StevensBecause the title poem is about one man's response to being infected with HIV, I can understand why readers would focus the book around the pandemic.
John BartonThe experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
John Barton
