“- Why are your poems so different from one another? - Because the years are different.” — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
“William tell, William tell, Take your arrow, grip it well, There’s the apple– – aim for the middle– – Oh well …… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“So what are your poems about? They're about ... how nothing is about, they're not about about. --Heather McHugh, 20-200 on 747” — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
“You will not know all about the fire simply because you asked. When she speaks of the forest this is what she… — Katie Ford Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“The townspeople took the prince for dead When he never returned with the dragon’s head When with her, he stayed She thought… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
“The sea waves stirred before me they dashed against the rocks Like a mermaid rising from its depths curled white sea foam… — Giselle V. Steele Copy Share Image
I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all… — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Where you find Truth Is where you find your reflection And where you find your reflection Is where you find love And… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
( Hey guys heres one of my poems I wrote hope you like it comment so I can see :) ) ask… — Natalya Johnson Copy Share Image
“Everything Is Going to Be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
“Break out to go out: The birds dare to break the egg shell It does so in order to get out of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“It lies here deep in the heart, the small chest of pain Sharp words like daggers placed it here To fill with… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
“This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“If the poems please you more than my lips, I will never give you another kiss.” — Juan Ramón Jiménez Copy Share Image
“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“Three birds sit on a wire One bird poops Three birds shit on a wire” — Eric Mancini Copy Share Image
“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“The imperfect is our paradise. —WALLACE STEVENS, “The Poems of Our Climate,” 1938.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
