Poem Title Quotes

#1. If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

James Cameron

#2. I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us.

Mary Oliver

#4. If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#5. Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#6. Such is a community
of inviolable immunity, protected
from tampering or harpooning
mutiny. Every better thinker's impulse
to shrink us (at the shoreline from our
lifeblood's deep pulse) uses disparaging
scrutiny to sink us.

Kristen Henderson

#7. As a businessman, my dharma is to cater to every taste of my viewer.

Subhash Chandra

#8. Let's try and fail because through failure you learn

Jared Leto

#9. I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.

Taylor Kinney

#10. The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.

Thomas Lux

#11. Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis
It was a dream I had last week
And some kind of record seemed vital.
I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem
But I love the title.

Wendy Cope

#12. Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#13. A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

#14. There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

Frank Herbert

#15. I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

George Hickenlooper

#16. Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.

Billy Collins

#17. The secret title of every good poem might be 'Tenderness

Galway Kinnell

#18. Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

Kiki Dimoula

#19. The term "teenager" had not long been invented, and it never occured to him that the separateness he felt, which was both painful and delicious, could be shared by anyone else.

Ian McEwan

#20. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

George Leonard

#21. And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts of poems and there were the drafts of my poem, Wild Gratitude, and I saw that I had begun the poem with the title August 13th.

Edward Hirsch

#22. It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.

Eileen Myles