Poems Quotes

Being single suks

— Mike

I write poems.

— Bill Ward

Lyrical state of mind

— Michael

“...hatching his poems..”

— Susanna Clarke

“Lies belong in poems”

— Kenneth Koch

“Poems are mummified ideas”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

Be REAL NOT FAKE

— Michael

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

— Roger McGough

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Names do not write poems nor do they create work.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“For you i have saved poems under my skin.”

— Sanober Khan

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

— Diane Wakoski

“Don't ask me what it means; ask me how it felt.”

— Jill Telford

“Wherever I go, I meet myself.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Sad poems are necessary because sad things happen.

— Cameron J Martin

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

— Alice Walker

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

“depth and substance. the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poem or a person.”

— Sanober Khan

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

— Mark Strand

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

— Joseph Brodsky

“She was another broken doll dreaming of a boy with glue. ”

— Atticus Poetry

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

— Matthea Harvey

“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”

— robert m drake

Smile it takes every little wrinkle away. Smile as if you are all good to go. Smile as if you did not…

— Anonymous

“She found herself over a long and treacherous road and the more treacherous the road became, the more of herself she found.”

— Atticus Poetry

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke,…

— James Welch

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

— Alfonso A. Ossorio

“We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers,…

— Dejan Stojanovic

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems…

— Harold Bloom

There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for…

— Stephen Dobyns

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was…

— C. C. H. Pounder

Sometimes I feel like falling in... fallin far beyond life its self.. i dont wanna breath but I dont wanna die..so take…

— Megann

“No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

You’ll never really know how much you meant to me. My heart will be with you until the end just wait and…

— Anonymous

“She winced and covered her ears as Eric,onstage, wrestled with his microphone. "Sorry about that, guys!" he yelled. "All right. I'm Eric,…

— Cassandra Clare

“That’s a stupid name! Whirly-gig is much better, I think. Who in their right mind would point at this thing and say,…

— Nathan Reese Maher

Love will work. The primal heart will override common sense, knock you off your fence and have raging and storming trapped desire,…

— Anonymous

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate…

— Adrienne Rich

I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so…

— C. K. Williams

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

— Anonymous