I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Dismantle the sun, pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods: For nothing now can ever come to any good…” The… — Lori Ryan Copy Share Image
For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.” — Odo Simon Agbo Copy Share Image
“One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem about you online. It's called "El Puto” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Choose a poem that speaks to you. Choose a poem that will help you speak to someone else.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Lord, let me write, leave me autistic and typing until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves and I know the… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
“Chains chains that hold me to the ground chains that keep me solidly bound chains that tether my heart to you chains… — Muse Copy Share Image
“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name, and I found one with a lifeguard’s chair, a broken shell,… — Michael Broder Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing To be so open: it is as if my heart Put on a face and walked into… — Renee Baron Copy Share Image
“We plant seeds in the ground And dreams in the sky, Hoping that, someday, the roots of one Will meet the upstretched… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
“And now we who are writing women and strange monsters Still search our hearts to find the difficult answers, Still hope that… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“I could go on all night, Lake. I could go on and on and on about all the reasons I’m in love… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Christmas Hyacinths The air grows cleaner with each sight Of words - silver and clear - Without heaviness and sighs. Winter closes in on… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German Tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers, A magnitude of beauty… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand… nor look through the eyes of the dead… nor feed on… — John Green Copy Share Image
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“No sun—no moon! No morn—no noon— No dawn— No sky—no earthly view— No distance looking blue— No road—no street—no "t'other side the… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“God promised you to give you dreams and visions, see Him as your great dream/vision giver.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.” — Jaime Gil de Biedma Copy Share Image
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.” — Jenim Dibie Copy Share Image
“Time tick tock says the clock whirrling by never shy quietly pass layer upon grass until time has gone. than you die.” — Kayla Dunn Copy Share Image
“With one glove off, you trace the heavens, / fingers full of reverence... (from Stargazers on a Winter's Night)” — Robert J. Tiess Copy Share Image
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Welcome to thee, O sword of eternity! Through Buddha And through Daruma alike Thou hast cleft thy way.” — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“My mind is the sun, and my heart is the moon. In the sky between them, there I am. Cristen Rodgers” — Cristen Rodgers Copy Share Image
No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You don't have to be an angel. All you need is someone who can always see your best angle.” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
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