Poems Quotes

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

I think my poems are slightly underrated by the word 'accessible.'

I like poems that are complex.

I like poems that are little games.

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems.

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

I do think that all of us think in poems.

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.