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)

    Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    A glass of papaya juice
    and back to work. My heart is in my
    pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy.
    Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)