I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“an axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself no one else can know you ” — Rodney Hall Copy Share Image
“And was it his destined part / Only one moment in his life / To be close to your heart?” — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“I beg you, help me, in angelic charity, Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost. — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem -… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The monsters were never under my bed. Because the monsters were inside my head. I fear no monsters, for no monsters I… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“When thinking is overrated And friends are easy to make, Check if it's too complicated Knowing yourself somehow... Inner peace's not hard… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“I'm working on a poem about heartbreak that I've been working on forever (give or take). The problem is that I've never… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“ Apology I didn't mean to say so much to you. I should have thought to let the evening end by looking… — Mary Szybist Copy Share Image
“The wind you hear is the birth of memory when the moment hatches in time’s womb there will be no art talk.… — Keropatse Kgositsile Copy Share Image
“The day is early with birds beginning and the wren in a cloud piping like the child in the poem, drop thy… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
“Yuletide Unburdening by Stewart Stafford Fading embers of the final Christmas test, No more the frantic angst of dawn, Now it is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“The Congregating of Stars They often meet in mountain lakes, No matter how remote, no matter how deep Down and far they… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“But anyhow it is true that this, which is our first poem, might very well be our last poem too. It might… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Scene: Darkness. Suddenly, a single spotlight illuminates Apollo standing on the front porch of the Big House. The house is a bold… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It’s a good poem if I’m a different person when I’m finished reading it. — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
“You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew” — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
“ONE WORD One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to… — Olav H. Hauge Copy Share Image
“Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.” — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“The Pressure- Maybe one day, after centuries, we can become brilliant gems in crystal caves and we will be immortal after all.” — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“This is what I most humbly feel, If you do not love me, history will!” — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore. — Tukaram Copy Share Image
“I think i should get love inked on my skin. Maybe that's the only way i am destined to keep it.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
“The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now. — Hilde Domin Copy Share Image
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I don't want what the world has to offer, I have something to offer the world. — Dakota Floyd Copy Share Image
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