“Sometimes by water 'and sometimes by the wind, 'my random lines on sand will be 'erased. What am I now? A ruddy… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“... And when the giant clam opened you were standing there dressed only in kelps and weeds of the ocean. And you… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
“Often I Wish I Were a potato. Eyes opened in all directions. Unafraid of the cold earth. The difference between life and… — Katerina Stoykova-Klemer Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Morning Poem" I've got to tell you how I love you always I think of it on grey mornings with death in… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Listen. Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can’t see love? Touch. Do you grasp… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Sing a song of suspense in which the players die. Four and twenty ravens in an Edgar Allan Pie. When the pie… — Jessica McHugh Copy Share Image
“The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you, it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know, your… — Tanzy Sayadi Copy Share Image
“THE MOON was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“[Poem II] I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I love you in my very own way. Like a stone loves the mosses around it Like a sea loves the pebbles… — Arzum Uzun Copy Share Image
“Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Through the darkest hours of the night and through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry sky and beyond galaxies… — Lee Argus Copy Share Image
“…[O]n a poem of a bridge I contemplate the boundless silence of a slender girl our ills flow together and how, borne… — Giuseppe Ungaretti Copy Share Image
Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“Silly little monster” all would say. They’d scratch its head and turn away until it snatched their tiny noses. They couldn’t even… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“I’ve reached the vanishing point without you. Here my heartache begins with your pain trying to find an unborn start in this… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars,… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“You exalt me Bati, This is the message to the society, Brightest day demands struggling, suffering and sacrifice, heroic labor would suffice.” — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Six Lines I know that in this world no one needs me, me, a word-beggar in the Jewish graveyard Who needs a… — Aaron Zeitlin Copy Share Image
A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Nobody came to see me today. Nobody saw him arrive. Nobody saw him walk away. Nobody knows he's alive.Nobody knows when he… — J. Scott Savage Copy Share Image
“from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN. We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“UNDIVIDED I am for One world undivided. One world without fear and corruption. One world ruled by Truth and Justice. I am… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The unspoken hurts. From everyone hidden corner it lurks. Seeking out its pray. We all want to run away. In the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
![“[Poem II] I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other, you’ve been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed: our friend the poet comes into my room where I’ve been writing for days, drafts, carbons, poems are scattered everywhere, and I…” quote by Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/402/adrienne-rich-803_long-way_poem-ii-i-wake-up-in-your-bed-i-know-i-h_1124584.png)
![“…[O]n a poem of a bridge I contemplate the boundless silence of a slender girl our ills flow together and how, borne away, she remains.” quote by Giuseppe Ungaretti](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fdb/giuseppe-ungaretti-44274_love_o-n-a-poem-of-a-bridge-i-contemplate-the_2245994.jpg)
