“You’re speaking volumes, my friend, and tonight we’re doing short poems only.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like.” — John Green Copy Share Image
The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does. — Bin Ramke Copy Share Image
“There’s too much risk in loving,’ the young boy said, ‘no,’ said the old man, ‘there’s too much risk in not.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“From the moment I saw her I knew this one was worth the broken heart.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Everyday I go to graveyard in search of her. maybe she can come back but in the end all i find is… — seerat Copy Share Image
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“A short poem from my book: Perspective Of course there is a hell she said and it has an observation deck; so… — Michelle Hartman Copy Share Image
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep How did we go from nonchalant conversation me… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I hide myself behind, a cloud of smoke; the smoke screen varies, dependent on the variable. The variable consists of: stress, anguish,… — Emily Sturgill Copy Share Image
The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
“Mockery and nagging have always been at play, But me hurting me is the ultimate Mayday.” — Ritu Negi Copy Share Image
“Oh, we were so wrong for each other, but the things we did to each other felt so right.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“You and I will be lost and found a thousand times along this cobbled road of us.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“She sat in her perfect house, with her perfect husband, wishing that her perfect life would end.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
