Quotes and poems

"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Unknown

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

Anthony Holden

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

Mary Oliver

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

Mark Strand

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen.

Steve Case

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

Norman MacCaig

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Anne Stevenson

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.

Peter Davison

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

Marilyn Hacker

Finally, I suppose, I'm interested in poems where one isn't stopped or where one is only stopped for a good reason.

Paul Muldoon

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

Billy Sherwood

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

James Broughton

I focus on own poems, but every once in a while, I think it's time for an anthology. I'm sort of working on one now.

Jack Prelutsky

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

Robert Morgan

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

Mark Strand

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day.

Roger Ebert

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars.

Daniel Okrent

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Howard Nemerov

Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when anyone comes... That's the Irish for you!

Irish Sayings

Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.

Antonio Gala

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

Anne Stevenson

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

James Broughton

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

Diane Wakoski