One of the most famous poems I know by Maya Angelou is not 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' it's the… — Chi Chi DeVayne Copy Share Image
My LOVE For You Runs DEEP, DEEP As THE ABYSS, I Have So Much I Want To Tell You So I Will… — Mike Copy Share Image
“Lovers, Forget Your love, And List To The Love Of These, She A Window Flower, And He A Winter Breeze.” -Robert Frost”… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
“Take me back to those days, when you knew of my love, yet liked me nonetheless, and when I smiled at you,… — C. Madan Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“It...whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by… — Kellie Elmore 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
“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
“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
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
“Listen. Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can’t see love? Touch. Do you grasp… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“History doesn’t start with a tall building and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thrones But I have… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Roses have thorns,’ we whine. When thorns of life entwine. Simple things can bring solace to heart-Things everyone take for granted-Like tending… — Val Uchendu Copy Share Image
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
“Nails that claw by a beautiful mind. A pretty face can leave you blind - Poem 'Small Pain' from 'The B Word:… — S.C. Silver Copy Share Image
“Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude. Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the… — Taylor Patton Copy Share Image
I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Maybe one day we’ll find that place, where you and I could be together and we’ll catch our dreams within the waves… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
''Even if I die.'' ''My love for you will never say goodbye.'' ''It might hurt the pain you will feel.'' ''The broken… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“It was interesting, not stupid or silly or sappy or overly intellectual—not any of those things that I thought poetry was. Some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All good things and perfect gifts comes from the lord above to me you are a treasure I am lucky to have… — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
“Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan,… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river… — Robert Adamson Copy Share Image
“I'll stop loving you the day my shadow stops following me around. Because on that day, nothing will make sense.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
