“from time to time, i think of him watching me from over the top of his glasses, or eating candy from a… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Five minutes ago escapes him as he chases 1934, unaware of the present beauty out the window, the banks of windswept snow—… — Anthony Walton Copy Share Image
“A weird, romantic Poem. You're either gonna do it or you're either gonna not. You're either gonna pull it or you're gonna… — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I dreamt of you last night, vivid and consuming and gone as I woke up faded from memory before I had the… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
“The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“(...) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few that touch the light “Will… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick… — wilfred owen Copy Share Image
“Love is a chemical reaction, But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“A tall man was learning from a vendor how to pronounce churro. High in the sticky clouds of time, he kept repeating… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“A BOAT beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July — Children three that nestle near, Eager eye… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN If you put a twizzler in your ear it… — Sam Pink Copy Share Image
“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone fidelity They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake And behold there the constellations Of both hemispheres at… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“WINTER'S GHOST: Autumn moon incautious in the dark river Winter’s ghost walks with a covered face and silver bones wait in all… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“...It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem… — Philip Gross Copy Share Image
“The poem begins, “About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position; how… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“and I can still write a poem (sometimes), don’t forget that, and even if they don’t pay off, it’s better than waiting… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A flower may die, the sun may set,but a friend like you ill never forget, your name is precious, it will never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Release- For years they told you to sit. Stay. Now they open the door and tell you to get up. Leave. Where… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“This is how the past interrupts our lives, all of it entering the same doorway--like the hole in the trunk of my… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“Her touch is like doing simple math When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes There is a red ink, like a… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“I’ve only written one decent poem in my life called “Lizard up My Leg”: A lizard up my leg gave me a… — Danny Rubin Copy Share Image
“Bombs on my backpack lunchbox full of fivestar crackers pockets loaded with rockets im gonna spit fireworks explosive rhymes connected like judas… — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
“My friends often state in the midst of otherwise loving group chat missives that life is trash, though we all keep trying… — Joshua Bennett Copy Share Image
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
