Poetry Quotes

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

And of course there must be something wrongIn wanting to silence any song.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

The tree the tempest with a crash of woodThrows down in front of us is not to barOur passage to our journey's end for good,But just to ask us who we think we are.

The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

Lord, I have loved Your sky,Be it said against or for me,Have loved it clear and high,Or low and stormy.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

In spring more mortal singers than belongTo any one place cover us with song.Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng.

The way a crow Shook down on me. The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood. And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.