Love is like a poem: open up and your heart will sing and…

“I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem.”

— Whitley Strieber

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

— Ann Reed

“A voice from the dark called out, "The poets must give us imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar imagination of disaster. Peace,…

— Denise Levertov

“I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.”

— Jessi Kirby

“He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.”

— Simon Van Booy

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

— Franz Grillparzer

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and…

— Harry Connick, Jr

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a…

— James Arthur

Don’t you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you’ll soon…

— Gail Tsukiyama

I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the…

— Allison Joseph

“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when…

— Velvetoscar

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent…

— Sarah Kay

“There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against…

— Gerald Hausman

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

— Gore Vidal

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the…

— Elizabeth Bishop