“the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“God doesn't listen to me too, but people have their suspicions. सुनता तो रब हमारी भी नहीं, पर लोगों को अल्लाह पे शक बेशक है” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“That year, we knew the sky existed because we believed in the storm, but we never saw the sky.” — Jorge Galán Copy Share Image
“I do not fear the night When I know that today I am bathed in a light It cannot be stolen away” — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
“The editor wants something a little more oblique, a little less opaque. Let the reader watch you / dissolve.” — Aaron Kent Copy Share Image
“Am I still a hero if the only person I save is myself? Am I still a villain if the only person… — B. Damani Copy Share Image
“I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker. Come see the freak named after his deceased father. Come see the prince who… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as… — David Patterson Copy Share Image
“Sour Milk You can't make it turn sweet again. Once it was an innocent color like the flowers of wild strawberries, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be… — Noor Hindi Copy Share Image
“You once told me You wanted to find Yourself in the world - And I told you to First apply within, To… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies. What you reject today, you could accept tomorrow.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“(Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.” — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“We did not know she was sick, but she has come to the fence, walking like a woman who is balancing a… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The Nuremberg judges added illegal hanging atrocities to violent Hitlerian racist ferocities.” — Saiom Shriver Copy Share Image
“Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you - Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance (From the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“To storm, a mind, it must be balanced, by what can't be it must be challenged...” — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
![“I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/590/elie-wiesel-341_attributes_i-read-the-text-and-then-i-come-to-the-s_340239.png)
