The imperfect is our paradise. —WALLACE STEVENS, “The…

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat

Are you scumming me? This is flipping bumbus. Koo koo kachu. I'll eat your body and throw you in a flipping zoo. ~Poems by…

— Grant Campbell

“It was her chaos that made her beautiful. ”

— Atticus Poetry

“She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. ”

— Atticus Poetry

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)”

— Pierre Reverdy

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

— Sharon Olds

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when…

— Daphne Gottlieb

Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the…

— Ada Limon

“Lies made it arduous to find a coffin that fit”

— Richard Carl Evans

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

— Giles Foden

“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old…

— Eudora Welty

I can't lie. Even if they think I'm wrong. Even if they don't understand. Even if they think I'm crazy. I'm me. They're supposed…

— Anonymous

Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look…

— Raegan Butcher

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

— Shane McCrae

“A thousand years or more ago, When I was newly sewn, There lived four wizards of renown, Whose name are still well-known: Bold Gryffindor…

— JK Rowling