Winnipeg Poem

Poets are born, not paid. - Addison Mizner

I want to make a poem of my life. - Yukio Mishima

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin

I like Beethoven, especially the poems. - Ringo Starr

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery

You bring your own weather to the picnic. - Harlan Coben

This poem will never reach its destination. - Voltaire

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. - Laini Taylor

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know. - Andre Gide

If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. - Leonard Cohen

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. - George Eliot

All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech. - Robert Frost

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer

There is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather. - Christina Rossetti

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. - Walt Whitman

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. - Robert Frost

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. - Amelia Barr

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. - Christopher P. Rubero

Poets aren't very useful,
Because they aren’t consumeful or produceful. - Ogden Nash

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action. - Henry Miller

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather. - Al Roker

The past is frozen and no longer flows, and the present is all lit up with eternal rays. - C S Lewis

I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. - Pablo Neruda

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost

Children raced outside. She surveyed their trail - traces of sticky fingerprints across everything, like wee poems. - Dr. SunWolf

My favourite poem is the one that starts, "Thirty days hath September" because it actually tells you something. - Groucho Marx

They invented the three-day bank holiday weekend because you can't lump all the bad weather into just Saturday and Sunday. - Unknown

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day. - Suzy Kassem

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. - Charles Darwin