A Month of Poems

Monday, April 30, 2012

I like poems that are little games.
Peter Davison

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
David Carradine

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

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
John Barton

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace