“I'm afraid of waking up to a world where you see and I am not what you saw” — Ali Nuri Copy Share Image
I never put myself at a bragging point where I say, 'I'm gonna have the illest verse.' — Fabolous Copy Share Image
Teaching has given me a community that cares about poetry, and I'm grateful for that. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time being creative as a child - painting, drawing and writing poetry. — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
“And as for writing my poetry, he claimed the toil of it was too much strain. Toil? Writing is my life. It… — Nancy Moser Copy Share Image
Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.” — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“When she broke your heart did she also crack your spine so you would always fall in her direction?” — Lauren Bullock Copy Share Image
“Those things that take my breath away become the ocean-complex and deep-and I'm prone to drowning in beautiful things. Like you.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. — William James Copy Share Image
“The songs of Japan take the human heart as their seed and flourish as myriad leaves of words. As long as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say,… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage might work: Because you wear pink but write poems about bullets and gravestones.… — Matthew Olzmann Copy Share Image
“ The Long Hill I must have passed the crest a while ago And now I am going down-- Strange to have… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
