“I sat in a box With walls on each side. Not too tall. Not too wide. To think. To ponder. To pray.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“an English girl might well believe that time is how you spend your love.” — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“You are full of fear—lucky. You have so many opportunities to be brave.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest, Children dying in the road, Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
'Two Voices,' from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a… — Ryokan Copy Share Image
You cannot create A monster and then Condemn it. Hate Its ugly features, Its terrible gait. When I look into The mirror,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there a fire, to light up all my desires. I guess there's water though, to all the lemons I throw ,… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
“Keep Moving... Move forward Let go Give in Decide and just Do Progress every day And make one step forward no matter… — Emma Daley Copy Share Image
“I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow! Droplets run down the wall, where do they go? Letters in the raw,… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“ HOME no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such Although I liked a few folk pretty well Love must be vaster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I… — Gerard Nolst Trenité Copy Share Image
“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“A tall man was learning from a vendor how to pronounce churro. High in the sticky clouds of time, he kept repeating… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July — Children three that nestle near, Eager eye… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Morning Poem" I've got to tell you how I love you always I think of it on grey mornings with death in… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The was her magic, she could still see the sunset even on those darkest days.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love? From " Three Women: A… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head. — Christopher Logue Copy Share Image
“The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“You are not who you think. You're not even the thinker. You are the one conscious of the thought.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every… — Marc-Andre Fleury Copy Share Image
“A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.” — Ewuare Osayande Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand,… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
