“Poem Words from the heart Breaking, teaching, healing The deepest, purest form of art Feeling” — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true —Dylan Thomas,… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“You are the remedy of intensity i need in my life, to spin me out of the miserable monotony of working on… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
My favorite kind of day, is a rainy; cloudy kind of day. I wish rain would fall everyday, as I lie down… — Kasey Clark Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“With a metal heart I came to this life, My head was a crucible, full of elixir. Pearl by pearl My heart… — Hersh Saeed Copy Share Image
“Answers I kept my answers small and kept them near; Big questions bruised my mind but still I let Small answers be… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“We march through snow and we march through rain With naught to lose and naught to gain Sun and moon and sun… — Sarah Delena White Copy Share Image
The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“Pay to go inside Neruda's home A body lies there with no dome. But right there in the front hall Lean a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“It is winter now, and the roses are blooming again, their petals bright against the snow. My father died last April; my… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Twilight Surprise” poem: “The sky burns down, A rim of coals glowing gold and red, Limned with orange again And kissed with… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
“He knows he will be hurt. The warnings come to him in bed because repose threatens him” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“How I'm glad to go back home! Once I truly have no more worry. Many of those who are in a hurry… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sundays.” — B. Devine Copy Share Image
We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
They say you spend your whole life re-writing the first poem you ever loved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A soul mate would be great, but at some point I'd settle for someone who gets back to text messages.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Firm was my resolve and fragile was my heart. I saw many ends and many a start.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others saw. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life” — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“When you get to find love, make sure it's because you get to find yourself” — Nicola An Copy Share Image
“Crying 'bout getting old—Patricia, you need to get up off what God gave you. Say a prayer and start slinging. Cue hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
