In this dark corner there is nothing but silence. The truth is in the air and puddles are being made. Confused, scared.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing To be so open: it is as if my heart Put on a face and walked into… — Renee Baron Copy Share Image
“We plant seeds in the ground And dreams in the sky, Hoping that, someday, the roots of one Will meet the upstretched… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
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“Chains chains that hold me to the ground chains that keep me solidly bound chains that tether my heart to you chains… — Muse Copy Share Image
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“People need people and the happiest people are surrounded with friendly flesh. If you have ten kids they'll be so sweet --… — Mark Halliday Copy Share Image
“Scarring smiles, hidden tears, You stand, heads bowed and revere The soul before us, burnt and torn Her faded essence, we sadly… — Amelia Mysko Copy Share Image
My love for you runs so deep, It is hard for me to even sleep. Every time I see your eye, All… — Nit Copy Share Image
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What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“I WANT her though, to take the same from me. She touches me as if I were herself, her own. She has… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . . And it is as though she who visits… — Al-Mutanabbī Copy Share Image
“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name, and I found one with a lifeguard’s chair, a broken shell,… — Michael Broder Copy Share Image
“A poem is all that's left of my lost loneliness... It is like a window that looks into a swimming pool... Or… — Chelsey Minnis Copy Share Image
With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Though the body is its genesis, a poem is the vision of a process Out of ceaseless motion in edgeless space Carved… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“I saw a white toilet, with no plumbing, alone in a field of snow. Well, almost alone. There were two naked albinos… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Now no one will listen to songs. The prophesied days have begun. Latest poem of mine, the world has lost its wonder,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Herr kakkerlakk i fotsid frakk og med for store sko, gikk på basar og vant et par kalosjer nummer to. Herr kakkerlakk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is not good form to take a Trick out unless one is so firmly established as to be able to afford… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
“Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms. All flawless hexagons may melt and break;… — James Wright Copy Share Image
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“In icy footsteps do actors tread in moonlight's chill, In crystalline depth, The players set, To entertain and do no ill. ©… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
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“The Beautiful Poem" I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
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“Secure in his flight Rider on the constant winds Hawk flies through his days Looks then to the east Prompted by fate’s… — Steve Robison Copy Share Image
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“If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens.… — Paul Reps Copy Share Image
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
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