A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“Things are always terrible for some people. The question is the ratio of the palpable hurt to the general session of life… — Maureen N. McLane Copy Share Image
“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
“Three birds sit on a wire One bird poops Three birds shit on a wire” — Eric Mancini Copy Share Image
“The moon is my fear. The sun is my heart afire. The stars, my love songs.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Quit bothering with angels, I say. They’re no good for Indians. Remember what happened last time some white god came floating across… — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
“My surname for a mask to pretend! I have no stand to protest, but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“Have you heard of this? An octogenarian, nasal cannula and wheeled oxygen, explains to me he’s ready and eager, exhausted by consciousness.” — Colin Pope Copy Share Image
“Let us keep enough money to enjoy each breath we take, but definitely not too much, if we don’t want to spoil… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Better Associations: If you associate yourself with a change maker, Your life will by all means become better. You will wink at… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Gloomy room immersed in a scent of modern cowards filled with shapeless creatures sitting in silence because they have nothing to say… — Asper Blurry Copy Share Image
“On the Gallows Once Kofi Awoonor I crossed quite a few of your rivers, my gods, into this plain where thirst reigns… — Kofi Awoonor Copy Share Image
“If my like for you was a footy crowd, you'd be deaf cos of the roar. And if my like for you… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Poem of the Song About Hope" I. Give me lilies, lilies, And roses too. But if you have no lilies Or roses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“I wrote my first poem about a bunny. ‘Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.” — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The truth is the object of our lust But the light is still so very dim…” — Andrea Barbosa Copy Share Image
“True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours” — Hasil Paudyal Copy Share Image
“When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral. Curiosity seekers... coming to see if I am really Dead or… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
“Some of us cover to protect our bodies some of us cover to protect our souls in both cases, respect their choices.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
“See mirror, every time you will miss me and look deeper into your eyes till you will find me.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Sleeping Atlantis Silent cool waters dancing upon her skin ~ silent cool water ushering dreams within...” — Muse Copy Share Image
“He was the one that healed her, that made her scars feel beautiful.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.” — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
“Let us remember to always rediscover one another because we are forever changing.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Why does the wrong feel so good? So tempting, so alluring So inciting, so sinful” — Pierce Smith Copy Share Image
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“All that I desire in life are three... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
