I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee 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
“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“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
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“But, at the end of the day, if you ever think you were wrong about it all, I'm here where I have… — Athena Violante Copy Share Image
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“SELF BENEATH THE SURFACE, VEILED ON PURPOSE, ALL KNOWING AND GRAND, DIRECTED, GUIDED, BY THE ETERNAL HAND, SUSTAINED, FULFILLED, FULL OF LIGHT,… — Charles Edward Copy Share Image
“We are all a little broken, looking for something whole to hang on to. But sometimes, what seems whole is even more… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write some words you'd remember. Words so alert they'd leap from the paper, crawl up your shoulder, lie by… — C.L. Foster Copy Share Image
“just then a little black ant struggles by alone, alone. And in that moment, I want us to give ourselves over to… — Michael Kleber-Diggs Copy Share Image
Today is such a strange day. The news is out about the Russians and mini-Donald. This seems like a turning point, but… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory and defeat. Everything moves toward the end, when… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The Green Rose by Stewart Stafford Through fractured eyes, I see the rose I once plucked, In another man's hands. And mistakes… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I think it’s beautiful the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“She loved to read her old poems. They are like photographs, she thought. There’s so much evidence of me.” — Leopoldine Core Copy Share Image
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …” — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
“I'll gladly settle for amnesia if I had to live in a world where I couldn't remember how much you mean to… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
