A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.

Wallace Stegner
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. - Pablo Neruda

  2. It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. - Virginia Woolf

  3. Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop! - Edwin Arnold

  4. The true poem rests between the words. - Vanna Bonta

  5. Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. - Mark Strand

More Quotes By Wallace Stegner
  1. Wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

  2. The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people...

  3. Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  4. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  5. Wisdom.. .is knowing what you have to accept.

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