The students write songs of themselves. First they draw paintings about what they feel and see to get to the heart of the poem. It's not an easy poem but they come away liking the poem.
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Related It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem. DEJAN STOJANOVIC I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your h... JEFFREY MCDANIEL Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. MARK STRAND If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. M. H. ABRAMS Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poe... MAYA ANGELOU I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. HOWARD NEMEROV The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a long... JOHN BURNSIDE All day long you sit and sew, Stitch life down for fear it grow, Stitch life down fo... EDITH SITWELL I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I h... STEVE ERICKSON I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. DEJAN STOJANOVIC The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from t... ROBERT PENN WARREN The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from t... ROBERT PENN WARREN In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfe... LOUIS DUDEK and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as o... CHARLES DICKENS Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhy... MARK TWAIN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL And now it is said of me That my love is nothing because I have borne no children, Or bec... JAMES WRIGHT When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of... ROBERT FRANK Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical—the human world of viole... BEN LERNER What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t... HAROLD BLOOM The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myse... NATASHA TRETHEWEY The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is n... ROBERT PENN WARREN The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A... BILLY COLLINS I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are... EAVAN BOLAND The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything ... MARGUERITE YOUNG The end of the day in a traditional school can sometimes be exhausting for students. We want to keep... SANDY CHAMBERS The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem WALT WHITMAN Not all that have fallen are vanquished. J.R.R. TOLKIEN We'd go in there without much of an idea and sit and discuss. They evolved in the studio itself. Dir... GRAEME EDGE One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing -... EAVAN BOLAND When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love? Fr... SYLVIA PLATH Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. C.D. WRIGHT I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. MICHAEL ONDAATJE It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes... BILLY COLLINS It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. WALLACE STEVENS How to Write a Poem Catch the air around the butterfly. KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over ... ROBERT FROST Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will ... JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens... BILLY COLLINS If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some ye... JULES MASSENET A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been adde... DYLAN THOMAS I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the... EDGAR ALLAN POE From the letters, people would certainly learn more about how a poem is made, ... They may learn mor... ANNE WRIGHT How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psyc... ALLEN TATE That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects... GEORGE ORWELL Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem. JOHN MILTON You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been m... DYLAN THOMAS In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. C.S. LEWIS It's what I've dedicated my life to prevent-the nonwriting of the great poem. MARIAN MACDOWELL What I wanted was to write a better love poem than the last, and when that didn't happen it killed m... A.J. CHILSON The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assert... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you. KAMAND KOJOURI I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I am who I say I am, I'm not some fantasy of how you think you think you know or who ... JAMES HOWE But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. PABLO NERUDA When they ask me, as of late they frequently do, how I have for so many years continued an equal int... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, t... CAROLYN KIZER It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry --That... TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. CHARLES OLSON A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ... E. M. FORSTER I know he's going to get a poem out of this. RACHEL HARRIS This poem will never reach its destination. VOLTAIRE A poem should not mean, But be ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Loo... SANSKRIT POEM My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've sa... LAURIE ANDERSON Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of ... TERRY EAGLETON I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to ... ANDREW MOTION Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a po... PAUL CELAN The moment of change is the only poem. ADRIENNE RICH It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once
a poem. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to th... BILLY COLLINS But all they want to doIs tie the poem to a chair with ropeAnd torture a confession out of it.They b... WILLIAM COLLINS Judge a poem like you would judge a person, for it was the person who wrote the poem. A.J. CHILSON The poem defies gravity. MARTY RUBIN A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart. DEBASISH MRIDHA When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I d... MALLORY ORTBERG For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a man; also, it ... THOMAS CARLYLE They took the time to write about themselves, their families, their school. All of the letters were ... BRUCE NICOLETTA A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. DOUGLAS DUNN The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anyth... JOHN BARTON Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pa... JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. ... KURT VONNEGUT If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole... PHILIP LEVINE Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens. C. K. WILLIAMS We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate. ALLEN TATE If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average DEREK WALCOTT Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, ... TERRANCE HAYES May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner... NORM TOMLINSON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific... NORM TOMLINSON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw. HARUKI MURAKAMI
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