Poem Quotes

Every thought was once a poem.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

The poem is itself a mirror.

— Derek Walcott

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

A picture is a poem without words

— Horace

A picture is poem without words.

— Confucius

I want to make a poem of my life.

— Yukio Mishima

“I’ll rise up as a poem…”

— Marina Tsvetaeva

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

“teach us equality through empathy”

— Michelle Frost

“There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I can be black magic Or boring as hell.”

— Alex Lemon

“Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after”

— Janet Fitch

“full moon fills in power lines, crow flies off”

— Bremer Acosta

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

— Robert Frost

A poem should improve on the blank page.

— Nicanor Parra

“THE RIGHT POEM FINDS US EXACTLY WHEN IT NEEDS TO. —ATTICUS”

— Atticus Poetry

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

“The enemy came to steal,kill and destroy our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“… Bless their believing happiness will make them happy; that the ocean is magical, a kingdom where we go to be human,…

— Philip Schultz

“Must always try to be out there Getting everything out there Take what is inside yourself And place it out there.”

— Initially NO

“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.”

— Melissa Lee-Houghton

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly,…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

— Julianna Baggott

“Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –”

— Aldous Huxley

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,…

— Alejo Carpentier

“Unable and crippled I am As I gaze into the vastness The vastness that harbors your praise And glories of the best…

— Anila Aboo

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by…

— Sharon Olds

“Sometimes, I marvel at the wonder of how graceful words seem to appear pen to paper; in others' hands And I think…

— Joy Chua

“Pain will humble ones soul,my pain was necessary as it humbled me beyond my limitations,I do not rush what is meant to…

— Patience Kudzu

“No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have…

— Jane Hirshfield

A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming…

— Celeste Ng

“You can Lose a child Or a parent, The love of your life, A good job, A game, A deal, A bet,…

— Suzy Kassem

“The bad news is your flaws don’t come from nowhere. The world is deeply fucked from every angle; its damage is incomprehensibly…

— Emma Healey

“Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where…

— Ben Lerner

Poem Titled {I Know the feeling} ~When life not going good and it seems all you doing is suffering and crying… ~It…

— Malcolm Cleveland

“Loving you is no more a beautiful memory, but now just a pain, I cry and weep every time I walk down…

— Anonymous

“When does real love begin? At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits, lightning and fireworks; the incense, hammocks, drugs, wines,…

— Anaïs Nin

“How Beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow