S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
“Between the Miles I have always counted the miles. Sometimes they came quick, Other times slow. The distance between things, The way… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“que ferais-je sans ce monde que ferais-je sans ce monde sans visage sans questions où être ne dure qu'un instant où chaque… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“Most Like an Arch This Marriage Most like an arch—an entrance which upholds and shores the stone-crush up the air like lace.… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires, There come… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“If You Forget Me if you forsake me I shall forget you too don’t take me for the lone redbud that lay… — Neena H Brar Copy Share Image
A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
This Poem is Written; By A boy Who Lost His Love: She Gave me lots of Love , I thought thats Enough..!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Leaves will fall, cold will creep in A circle of life that ends where it begins It may take a thousand years… — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
“The streets are silent / The playgrounds are still / The noise has moved elsewhere / Into our homes / Into our… — Daya Kudari Copy Share Image
“She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“I’d say that most of these [poems in Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP] are just straightforward enough, but not entirely… — Sage Cohen Copy Share Image
“Through the darkest hours of the night and through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry sky and beyond galaxies… — Lee Argus Copy Share Image
“He was the hunter of my soul, lying in wait - silently and motionless. Coaxing me out of hiding, Enticing me with… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether… — Paul Tran Copy Share Image
How would you paint me? If you were a artist how would you paint me? With deep solid strokes or your brush… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
“all the pretty woman thought the poems i wrote on love were meant for them. and i always felt badly about having… — Orhan Veli Kanık Copy Share Image
“The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Raindrops fall from clouds of gray. The fragile flowers grow. Teardrops seem all I can say. They speak of endless woe. Your… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter,… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Jane,' she said, climbing down from the chair. 'Remember last year when I built that model wind tower for you and you… — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“She was rare, few and far between She suspected he would be as well And the thought of two rare, few and… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine a life without books. Without Father's stories of the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, without pirate stories and fairy… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
“Sonnet V I touch you as a lonely violin touches the suburbs of the faraway place patiently the river asks for its… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“She has a fiery soul that cannot be tamed. She has free spirit that cannot be maimed. She moves with the wind… — Mishi McCoy Copy Share Image
“I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear. If you have a message that really needs… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
![“One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 [the year of the Easter Rising]. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too…” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5fb/seamus-heaney-1711_being-responsible_one-of-the-very-first-poems-i-wrote-was_181491.jpg)
![“I’d say that most of these [poems in Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP] are just straightforward enough, but not entirely explainable or attributable to a single cause/effect, which makes them the kind of poems I want to read many times… “Salty as a lip” is my favorite. It’s so alive: strange and…” quote by Sage Cohen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d2e/sage-cohen-90776_books_i-d-say-that-most-of-these-poems-in-jaso_2267450.jpg)
