Poems

Famous quotes containing the word poems:

“This is what poems are:
with mercy
for the greedy,
they are the tongue’s wrangle,
the world’s pottage, the rat’s star.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“You live by writing
Your poems on a farm and call that farming.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)