The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other ("Poem")” — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“From Pine Ridge to Chiapas del barrio de La Loma a la selva Lacandona" - from the poem "Amorindio” — Raúl R. Salinas (raúlrsalinas Copy Share Image
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“An unfinished poem is a half-built house, windows of air through the scaffolding.” — Jacob Oet Copy Share Image
“Be there a picnic for the devil, an orgy for the satyr, and a wedding for the bride.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure if I can write a love poem while it’s still just a prospect pirouetting on the horizon, but when… — Simone Stolzoff Copy Share Image
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“Larry’s such a liar--- He tells outrageous lies. He says he’s ninety-nine years old Instead of only five. He says he lives… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
A Heart Touching Poem By A Solider.. . . If I Die In A War Zone, Box Me Up N Send Me… — Ritzy Copy Share Image
“Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’, Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
