“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery. — Dorothy Cottrell Copy Share Image
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“We hold firm our phones, In case we capture that shot, Of a jumbo jet falling, Or that child time forgot.” — P.J. Bayliss Copy Share Image
The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“ We Never Said Farewell We never said farewell, nor even looked Our last upon each other, for no sign Was made… — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I didn’t even know my face could do this. It’s like there were hidden zippers in my cheeks. Jesus. This must be… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Social media's currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs.… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
The verse love others as you love yourself is not talking about liking yourself romantically or as a friend. It is talking… — June Hunt Copy Share Image
“A person can only be born in one place.However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Interesting. And does Abu have anything else to say?" she asked, leaning closer. Cinnamon. Her breath smelled of cinnamon. He could even… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Let us remember to always rediscover one another because we are forever changing.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I reach out in love, my hands are guns, my good intentions are completely lethal.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“The moon is my fear. The sun is my heart afire. The stars, my love songs.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
