No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
“Life's like us We find it- and then the death A poem for a goodbye? Why insist?” — Daie-Soko Copy Share Image
“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon” — Francis William Bourdillon Copy Share Image
“«¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
“A poem begins as I look into your eyes, as I kiss your lips, as I grasp your hair, a sense of… — Alejandro Perez Copy Share Image
“He sits, silent, no longer mistaking the cable news for company— and when he talks, he talks of childhood, remembering some slight… — Anthony Walton Copy Share Image
“I'll never let you brood over my numbness As long as your onion love I peel and cry I'll never let you… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
When I lose all wards and can't make sense, when all meanings of life confuses me and I can't open up to… — Abeer Shennawy Copy Share Image
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“Together, we are a tribe of eyes that look upward, Even as we stand on uncertain ground. The earth beneath us moves,… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
“I saw a man swerve his car and try to hit a stray dog, but the quick mutt dodged between two parked… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars,… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
“I did it the hard way Many of the big dreams I dreamt, I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt. Life… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Flute of Breath Dusky condolence Today i 'll sing you My Sighs” — Satbir Singh Noor Copy Share Image
