My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness my inner peace.
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings and making music with them.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience...
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
However if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence there can't be much to...
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message an...
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my...
One will never again look at a birch tree after the Robert Frost poem in...
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them...
We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Each word bears its weight so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and...
You don't make a poem with ideas but with words.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of...
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally in the end pleasure.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior...
I like poems that are little games.
I still read Donne particularly his love poems.
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading...
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
The novel is born of disillusionment the poem of despair.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
The poet may be used as a barometer but let us not forget that he is also...
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in...
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means you have missed...
Poetry is thoughts that breathe and words that burn.
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for...
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our...
The moment of change is the only poem.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
A poem can have an impact but you can't expect an audience to understand all...
Every single soul is a poem.
