Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland 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
“My demons creep like a pedo in a park full of kids. Each one reminding me of the consequences, what I didn’t… — Ken Dereste Dorcely Copy Share Image
“One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
You were born to be a rainstorm, to be chaotic and be bold, to show there's beauty in knowledge and that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book.… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I… — Ashley Tisdale Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“How to be a Poet (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I will hold what I am inside, and keep my hands tight around all the things I have seen and heard, and… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
“No sooner was she twenty-three years old than she was twenty-eight; no sooner twenty-eight than thirty-one; time is speeding past her while… — Maylis de Kerangal Copy Share Image
The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Love. The world is so full of love. Love fills the sky. Love is spread all over the ground. Music is love… — Anonymous 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
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems. — Antonio Gala Copy Share Image
Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything. — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“depth and substance. the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poem or a person.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts. — Maia Wojciechowska Copy Share Image
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan” — T.S. Garp Copy Share Image
