Every thought was once a poem.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

— Steven Wright

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

— Rita Dove

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I should suppress…

— Robert Graves

This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose…

— Lyn Hejinian

“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon…

— Charles Bukowski

“Poem Heart of the heartless world, Dear heart, the thought of you Is the pain at my side, The shadow that chills my view.…

— John Cornford

“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this world more…

— Deeper sense of presence Isabella koldras

“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing…

— David Nicholls

“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for…

— Ramon Ravenswood

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while…

— Li-Young Lee

“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Whatever you want," he said. "Will you please come here now?" I slipped a piece of protective tissue over my drawing and flipped the…

— Melissa Jensen

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

— Helen Vendler