Title Poem Quotes

#1. Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.

Jose Raul Capablanca

#2. A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.

Frank Herbert

#3. I started acting when I was seven-years-old. By the time I was 17 I would say: "If I'm not a star by the time I'm 18, I'll get out of the business."

Vin Diesel

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Love, like life, isn't a tragedy or a fairy tale - it's both.

Jeannine Allison

#7. The very moment I admitted we were flirting, I lost patience for it.

Susan Choi

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. A wandering dog of a night wind came in off the sagebrush mesa carrying a bar of band music, and laid it on her doorstep like a bone.

Wallace Stegner

#11. I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

Bernie Sanders

#12. I'm a very spiritual person, and I believe in God and all that kind of stuff. So my perfect type of guy would be spiritually grounded, extremely respectful and funny because I love to laugh.

Grace Gealey

#13. Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

Kenny Loggins

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

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. It's what's known as the 'why feed a fish if it's already in your net' mentality, but when a fish runs out of food, it has one of two choices: to escape or die

Hitomi Kanehara

#16. Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the cast iron-works of time and circumstance, there was one chain forged in the moment of that small conclusion, riveted to the foundations of heaven and earth, and gifted with invincible force to hold and drag.

Charles Dickens

#17. Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

Peter DeFazio

#18. 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

#19. All it takes is for one person to say you're ugly, and you're like, I guess I'm ugly. And that was it.

Tori Spelling

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

Galway Kinnell

#21. 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

#22. I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

Olivier Megaton

#23. 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

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

Eileen Myles