“I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“depth and substance. the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poem or a person.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Our real poems are already in us / and all we can do is dig. / We can work for years and… — Jonathan Galassi Copy Share Image
“The Fool, when removed from solid ground, leaps- From mountaintop, to burning star, to black, black space. The scholar, when bereft of… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“She found herself over a long and treacherous road and the more treacherous the road became, the more of herself she found.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Smile it takes every little wrinkle away. Smile as if you are all good to go. Smile as if you did not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beyond the Years I the years the answer lies, Beyond where brood the grieving skies And Night drops tears. Where Faith rod-chastened… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
“I tasted danger on his lips and became an addict. A slave to adrenaline and irrational behaviour. We lived recklessly in a… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“I want words which are scalpel sharp and shiny; poems keen enough to gut a fish and clean it. Poems labelled not… — Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
