Famous quotes containing the word poems:
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)
“You live by writing
Your poems on a farm and call that farming.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)