An unfinished poem is a half-built house, windows of air…

I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.

— Mary Oliver

Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.

— John O'Donohue

“It’s like an endless chain of half-built houses,”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“During the next few years I wrote a series of Martian pensées, Shakespearean "asides," wandering thoughts, long night visions, predawn half-dreams. The French, like…

— Ray Bradbury

“Easter blessings All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves awaken our senses and power to love and be whole Our Mother Earth, Our Father Sky…

— Ramon Ravenswood

“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

“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

“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