“Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon, illuminate the shadows in the sky.” — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
“The ocean was so deep, i thought it was all just a dream but...it became reality” — KanekiBlue 503 Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.” — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
“ Smile. Steel it. Keep steeling it. Laugh. Trill it. Keep trilling it. Love. Feel it. Keep feeling it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Four simple chambers. A thousand complicated doors. One of them is yours.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
“Why this candle? Why this cake? The day of my birth is not today. I was born when you said, 'Hey.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“But the thing is that I can hear Sam and Craig having sex, and for the first time in my life, I… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm… — Hart Crane Copy Share Image
“This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end… — Kandi Dougherty Copy Share Image
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write.… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
It was a gloomy day, Young boy walking on a narrow street. Felt someone following him, So all he heard was his… — Vladimir Cius Copy Share Image
“As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine.… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“This is a poem about death, about the heart blanching in its fold of shadows because it knows someday it will be… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings and some are treasured for their markings-- they cause the eyes to melt or the… — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
A poem I wrote: I was just that little girl, who was in the park on day, I was just that little… — Akila Sultana Copy Share Image
“I am a forward-looking girl and don't stay where I am. "Left right, Be bright," as I said in my poem. That's… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your… — John Green Copy Share Image
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“We both knew something wasn't quite right, but we clung on, used each other like cigarettes: casual, habitual, slow death. Why?” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
“It is essential that we always repeat: we the people, we the people, we the people.” — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future.” — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for?” — Cesar Nascimento Copy Share Image
I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand? — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I've discovered a way to stay friends forever - There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to do And… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
The mind is the great poem ofwinter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Doubt is unacceptable and should not enter you; it is merely evil trying to divert you and increase the difficulty of your… — William O'Brien Copy Share Image
“And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.” — Jack McCarthy Copy Share Image
“i am simply the poet. the poem is the one that can change your life. – medium” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
