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Poem: the stranger from my heart.

Poem: the stranger from my heart.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about aphorisms, heart

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it...

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about body

My anxiety poem I write a poem today it will die tomorrow. It rises on its shivering feet of words it catches my attention and pulse as a living creature in another century - higher, unborn - and rises up, upper and upper, from...

Quote by Olimpiu Nusfelean about poetry, silence, attention, common sense, sense

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Quote by Harold Bloom about criticism, fall, real estate, love

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about determination, poetry, poets, man

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true, and this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Quote by George Oppen about character, reason

Then I did Japanese Death Poem. I played seven or eight...

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.

Quote by Austin Peck about character, death, things

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Quote by Walt Whitman about democracy, past, art, magic

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the...

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about history, time, man

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Quote by Mata Hari about dance, word

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play.

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about poetry, memory, thinking

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Quote by Paul Engle about poetry, sadness, heads, poets

I believe that each human being has within himself or...

I believe that each human being has within himself or herself at least one poem or short story, or perhaps even a full length book.

Quote by Dee Brown about literature, human imperfections, being

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Quote by Hippolyte Taine about people, man

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will...

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Quote by John Millington Synge about language, music

My poem is you.

My poem is you.

Quote by Razvan Tupa about aphorisms

Thank you, beloved mother Thank you, beloved mother my star from dawn! without you I am afraid that the planet would get colder. I have worn your vigor, you have grown me, you have blossomed me for your dear mother the sun stays in...

Quote by Corneliu Vadim Tudor about mother, immortality, miracle, celebrity, sun, law, light, secret, nature, heart

The construction of a poem equals the carving in marble of a statue, or just only a statuettes. The composition of a statuary group sends you to prose.

Quote by Barbu Cioculescu about literature

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into...

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Quote by Pablo Neruda about opinion, peace

Exhausted sunset I have seen Reality trailing its changing shadow behind: blue nebulae crouching in the corner of your eye an exhausted sunset pinning down a patch of sky - of course, I’m trying to explain all this to you, especially...

Quote by Otilia Nicolescu about poetry, shadow, smile, sky, reality, world

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