“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I sat in a box With walls on each side. Not too tall. Not too wide. To think. To ponder. To pray.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“you want to be angry but you can’t stop looking and when you look you love and when you love the entire… — Sina Queyras Copy Share Image
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“I did it the hard way Many of the big dreams I dreamt, I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt. Life… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will… — Marnie Mueller Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“pissing on photos, we wake parched in parallel realities i still end up drowning in visions he settles for the horror; hostage… — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry?” — Rhian Williams Copy Share Image
“Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.” — Zoe Klein Copy Share Image
Feeling like Rap God when you sing a fast verse from a song successfully. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.” — Brandon Villasenor Copy Share Image
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“maybe this organ will be my country & everyone i love is safe here.” — Jess Rizkallah Copy Share Image
Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
