Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it.… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Are you scumming me? This is flipping bumbus. Koo koo kachu. I'll eat your body and throw you in a flipping zoo.… — Grant Campbell 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
“Sublime wonders lie in store, I am shown a regal residence; a mighty kingdom, an empire with more grandeur than before ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri 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
“Girls, be good to these spirits of music and poetry that breast your threshold with their scented gifts. Lift the lyre, clear… — Sappho Copy Share Image
Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses… — Elizabeth Spires Copy Share Image
“And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
“The day arrived,when myriad teary rivers flow and the muted wind faintly died in his tears—an altar for the beloved one's departure,for… — Nithin Purple 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
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
“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
“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree; And only God who makes the tree Also… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
“Always learn poems by heart,' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
As a university student, I tried hard to write poems in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy,… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
When I took my poetry class in school. I read an e. e. cumming's poem. I dont mind eels except how they… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Don't stand beside my grave and weep, For I'm not there, I do not sleep, I am a thousand winds that blow,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match,we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
