Quotes about Poem
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
— Joseph Campbell
Roy G. Biv" to remember the colors and she made up a rhyme: A rainbow is named Roy G. Biv To remember the colors and the joy they give.
— Glenn Beck
And I will not make a poem nor the least part of a poem but has reference to the soul, Because having look'd at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the soul.
— Walt Whitman
The Psalter forms the great epic poem of the creator and covenant God who will at the last visit and redeem his people and, with them, his whole creation.
— NT Wright
Yes, she was a poem, she was a dream, she was a spirit...
— Mark Twain
As Francis Thompson wrote in his classic poem "The Hound of Heaven," "Is my gloom, after all, shade of His hand outstretched caressingly?
— Peter Kreeft
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
— John Milton
It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.
— Victor Hugo
Endymion received mostly negative criticism after its release and Keats himself admitted its diffuse and unappealing style. It was damned by many critics, giving rise to Byron's quip that Keats was ultimately "snuffed out by an article", suggesting that he never truly got over the criticism the poem received.
— John Keats
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
— Henry David Thoreau
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.
— CS Lewis
We are his poi?ma', his 'poem', his 'workmanship', wrote Paul (Ephesians 2.10), 'created . . . in King Jesus for the good works that he prepared' — not simply 'good works' of moral behaviour, but the fresh creativity whose rich variety reflects the lavish creativity of God himself, thereby offering a sign to the powers of the world that Jesus is lord and they are not (Ephesians 3.10—11).
— NT Wright