“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“love ridden i searched for you in corridors, open doors and in endless seas of similes and metaphors but we never were… — K. Y. Robinson Copy Share Image
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
“For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Will and Love practiced to invoke her Majesty Kundalini In the world where Adepts die and bloom as Lotuses The perfection of… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
“I want a fairytale romance in a make-believe land. Let’s run through the beautiful meadow and pretend the walls aren’t closing in.… — Kayla Krantz Copy Share Image
The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Here's another poem, like all others before and after, dedicated to you. There isn't anything left to be said but I will… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“ The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The first intimation of a new romance for a woman of the court was the arrival at her door of a messenger… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“-A Word On Statistics- Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: almost all the… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
No words I write can ever say, How much I miss you every day. As time goes by the loneliness grows, How… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Greed and desire Not peace, but fire Coveting creation Created damnation Pulled alongside A gate thrown too wide Now our home calls… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Think the tree that bears nutrition: though the fruits are picked, the plant maintains fruition. So give all the love you have.… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“7. The first time I arrived here, I never thought I am small and luminous 8. The body, burdened and miraculous 9.… — Erika Meitner Copy Share Image
“Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude. Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the… — Taylor Patton Copy Share Image
“From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“The poem is furious ascension; poetry, the game of arid riverbanks. I am a man of riverbanks – excavation and inflammation –… — René Char Copy Share Image
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I've spent much of my life being attuned to watching for an image or a phrase that can trigger what might be… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Great Britain be proud, be blessed, be bold! Show the world what are you made of; show them you are made of… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“How young I seem; I am exceptional; I think of all I have. But really no one is exceptional, No one has… — Randall Jarell Copy Share Image
Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure if I can write a love poem while it’s still just a prospect pirouetting on the horizon, but when… — Simone Stolzoff Copy Share Image
“He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
