I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything. — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems. — Antonio Gala Copy Share Image
“I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn. Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke,… — James Welch Copy Share Image
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. — Alfonso A. Ossorio Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The scariest thing about depression is how normal it starts to feel. How silence becomes your native language. How disappearing starts to… — Chloe Holland Dicks Copy Share Image
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead" When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions… — Charles Hamilton Sorley Copy Share Image
“ Success" If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work day and night for it,… — Berton Braley Copy Share Image
I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“THE POEMS OF OUR CLIMATE I Clear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The light In the room more… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will. — Horace Copy Share Image
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“There will always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
