“Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of… — Emma Ghent Curtis Copy Share Image
“life has me holding a grudge pouring coffee on my recollections not revealing where the moon finds its water” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
“An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! How more horrible that that Is the curse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lived Is an historian & an artifact, For they hold all their time within them.” — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“This separation happened for a reason, this esason is for our own good; God is just positioning us.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well,… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“you cross me at your peril, I swallow light when the warm of anger lashes me into a spin, the pine trees… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When I grow bored, pick up the pen and begin thinking. Thinking and writing because it's chasing a dream, hoping to be… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
“You sit at the edge of the world, I am in a crater that's no more. Words without letters Standing in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“POOR ANGUS Oh what do you do, poor Angus, When hunger makes you cry? "I fix myself an omelet, sir, Of fluffy… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am a shadow. I walk the wet roads under the dim light of the pale lamps, in the darkest hour of… — Foaad Ahmad Copy Share Image
“This creative tension between wonderful and terrible is named so well by Gerard Manley Hopkins, as only poets can. Even the long… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
