“Her heart was wild, but I didn’t want to catch it, I wanted to run with it, to set me free.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wear my light.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.” — James Tate Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm sick of this poem, you probably are too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From Pine Ridge to Chiapas del barrio de La Loma a la selva Lacandona" - from the poem "Amorindio” — Raúl R. Salinas (raúlrsalinas Copy Share Image
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“An unfinished poem is a half-built house, windows of air through the scaffolding.” — Jacob Oet Copy Share Image
“Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and… — Steven R. McQueen Copy Share Image
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn't… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You saw me being dumb, but I did to make u laugh You saw me being stupid, but I did to make… — Nidhi Saini Copy Share Image
“Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft… — John Donne Copy Share Image
There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Now I become myself. It's taken Time, may years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“ENTER THIS DESERTED HOUSE But please walk softly as you do. Frogs dwell here and crickets too. Ain't no ceiling, only blue… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Woman of Mother Earth Oh, what is this I’m feeling, Mother Earth beneath my feet . . . Endless roots journey, through… — Kathleen Klawitter Copy Share Image
“Be there a picnic for the devil, an orgy for the satyr, and a wedding for the bride.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“You were moon's eye to me pull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew” — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work. — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
“I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.” — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“If the world stops spinning, slowing to a crawl. I will continue to dream of you. Until, I no longer dream at… — Jessica de la Davies Copy Share Image
There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem. — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
