“Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I understood the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I will kiss you here. And here. And here. And here. You express me better than I express myself. You shall be… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From this the poem springs: that we live in a place That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves And… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,… — William Knox Copy Share Image
I tried to write you a poem today, but I had writer's block… so this all I came up with : roses… — Valeri Hernandez Copy Share Image
The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't have to be sunny It wouldn't have to be anything else then just that It would really simplify my walk… — Jackie Clark Copy Share Image
“You know that book of poems I’m always carrying around? [...] In one of her poems, she calls hope the ‘thing with… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“She grew tired of shielding her body, For societal expectation and propriety, Double standards and sobriety, Ideologies of prudent cries, And boys… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“THE DANCE OF ANGELS Suzy Kassem He spins and spins and spins To remove all three layers of him And with devout… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE Oh Princess of the Sun. Daughter of nature. Love of the trees. Your eyes are with tears but love… — Victor Vote Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Another day without no rain, is another day of sorrow. And if it doesn't rain today, I hope it rains tomorrow.” — JM Carydice Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
“i reach the perfect cube, and wait for somebody to pick the phone back at home.” — Abhijit Sarmah Copy Share Image
“Take me when I'm wild. Take me when I'm free. Take me for me and I will take you as you want… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say. — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. — Jaime Gil de Biedma Copy Share Image
“the star that I was wishing the light that I was kissing sitting back and reminiscing that night, it was missing.” — Lokesh Fouzdar Copy Share Image
“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.” — James Stephens Copy Share Image
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Like I said, no Indian I’ve ever heard of has ever been or seen an angel.” — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
“Do not fall in love with me, for I will break your heart, long before you realize, you were going to break… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a… — Drew Myron Copy Share Image
“Gentle whispers from above Awakened me more Than ever did This loud world” — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
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