“It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.” — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Your greatest dreams will always slumber within the vicious depths of fear.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“the sapphire depth of my own love...startles and warms and wounds my soul.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“Drugs to me have always been a pretty girl with a sly smile beckoning me with a finger down the dark path… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“You ask how it is possible to be your own father and son. You should seek answers, although it is better to… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
So many things to think about, so many words to say. So many deeds to be done, so many habits to create.… — Kristiana Evans Copy Share Image
“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree. Way… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“ After a Retreat What hast thou learnt today? Hast thou sounded awful mysteries, Hast pierced the veiled skies, Climbed to the… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go… — Yash Thakur Copy Share Image
Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman,… — Raegan Butcher Copy Share Image
“Transformations All night he ran, his body air, But that was in another year. Lately the answered shape of his laughter, The… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“I steal one glance over my shoulder as soon as we are far from the foreboding luminance of the neon glow, and… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“The greatest of poems is an inventory. Every kitchen tool becomes ideal because Crusoe might have dropped it in the sea. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
“Gardens in Spring with flowers abound their scent interwoven in the wind” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
“Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“So old were you, Grammpa— the last time I saw you, anaemic You looked like the monsoon in my town.” — Abhijit Sarmah Copy Share Image
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re safe. So maybe for… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every… — Shakira Copy Share Image
“Most poems I’ve seen are about love or sex or the stars. You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars.… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you.” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later -… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la… — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
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