“I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw your face, my lips said, "hello" and my heart said, "that's your wife.” — J.A. ANUM 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
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri 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
Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
That sense of mystery, but also of revelation, is what I turn to poems for. They're able to embody experience. We need… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“TO FOREIGN LANDS. I heard that you ask’d for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.” — Robert Lynd Copy Share Image
Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's something about her. It's not her smile or grace, It's not her beauty or race, It's not her scent or warm… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“O Sailor! It’s the way I want to be It’s beyond the pale for me It’s what being unknown is all about… — Tapan Ghosh Copy Share Image
“The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard you try.… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
“The Weaver My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft… — Benjamin Malachi Franklin Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed,… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as… — David Patterson Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
“The heart is built of starlight And time. A pinprick of longing lost in the dark. An unbroken chord linking the Infinite… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“We are all born free and spend a lifetime becoming slaves to our own false truths.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“I worry there is something broken in our generation, there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces…” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple. — Tim Key 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
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image