“how is it that he's always in my thoughts. even when i am not thinking.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.” — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
“The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
What to do if the heart breaks? Is it a toy made of glass? Something happened… It did. Was an interesting beautiful… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.” — Major Jackson Copy Share Image
“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Love for us is no paradise of arbors — to us love tells us, humming, that the stalled motor of the heart… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way - not those who have made it, who… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“No artist has painted A true portrait of Lenin Ages to come will complete Lenin's unfinished portrait. Did Poletaev understand the tragic… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Lucky accidents seldom happen to writers who don't work. You will find that you may rewrite and rewrite a poem and it… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“He had written her reams and reams of letters, as well as a poem that she kept folded in a locket around… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“Souls of love breathlessly sail Towards our time when hours fail To cope with longing here we are Chasing the speed of… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.” — Mary Crow Copy Share Image
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“the delicate fragrance of rose hips lingered on my fingers from tending the garden .” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
The Language of Poetry may have many Tongues but her Kiss is Everlasting — Adrian Ernesto Cepeda Poet Copy Share Image
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
