“Good folk, I have no coin, To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“The love of books is for children who glimpse in them a life to come, but I have come to that life… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the… — Sarah Knowles Bolton Copy Share Image
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“in the end it is words poetry. sunsets someone’s deep blue silk voice. mountain scents. someone’s smile. eyes. that we have no… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians still don’t understand the ball our hands made, or how your electrocuted grandparents made it possible for you to light my… — Jeffrey McDaniel 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
“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
“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
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Poems are not often simply emotions but One has enough emotions -- they're experience Experience themselves are not important…” — Angela Suba Natarajan Copy Share Image
Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“They chased money, fast cars, and business empires. And all I ever wanted was to stare at the stars in the night… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
“Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based… — Dawn Huntsman Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I fell completely off the face of the earth Contemplating life, light and love in the darkness of the void Strangely… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
“Oh on my breast in days hereafter Light the earth should lie, Such weight to bear is now the air, So heavy… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
“He pulled me close and said, "Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you." It was the… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like Fluoride in the water, they'll make your… — Janet Finch Copy Share Image
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“In Poems of Love and Light: The Light of The Sun…Our Breath as One, the tenor seems to have changed slightly, as… — Frank L. DeSilva Copy Share Image
Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.… — Jane Hirshfield 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
