“i believe that everyone in the world. has one poem. that is their soulmate.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I live I fight I bleed I die For love. I am Fey" ~I am Fey, a warrior’s poem by Evanaris vel… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“No more can this Angel teach her, Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I really miss English. Going into English class and analysing a poem or book, I found that so much fun. — Ruel Copy Share Image
Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
You say you love me, then you leave. Now I'm here, begging please. You try to say you meant well, but now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the waves hit the shores over and over, rolling and roaring, to the immature eyes it seems like a fight or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go… — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
“A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul.… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“And now dear little children, who may this story read, To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed: Unto… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Objects and Objectives To contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“The world's an incessant transformation, and to meditate is awareness, with no clinging to, no working on, the mind. It is a… — Robert Gray Copy Share Image
“A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIA If you hold this Dazzling emerald Up to the sky, It will shine a billion Beautiful miracles… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Dear . . . You’re the poem I couldn’t finish The journey I should have never started I saw tragedy in our… — Samantha King Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“He who creates a poison, also has the cure. He who creates a virus, also has the antidote. He who creates chaos,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I dig, you dig, we dig, he dig, she dig, they dig… Its not a beautiful poem, but its very deep :P — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“The first thing fading is your beauty the least trustworthy is your mind down here on this earth nothing's of any worth—in… — Fabian W. Williges Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel. — James Wright Copy Share Image
A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I wanna make growing old with you the last poem I ever have to write” — Michael Biondi Copy Share Image
“Hang tight Hold on Look up Stay strong Hang on Hold tight Look strong Stay up One day I might break One… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“The rainbow across the sky after a storm confirms Your kindness and Your forgiving heart.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot… — Goldie Nanwani Copy Share Image
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book. — George Murray Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image