A poem is a meteor.

“the lion sleeps in the sun. its nose on its paws. it can kill a man.”

— Wallace Stevens

“The slow maturation of genuine creativity looks like laziness to a committee. Wallace Stevens was forty-three when his first book appeared. Robert Frost was…

— Dana Gioia

“Sometimes you must go too far to see what would suffice.”

— Rodney Ross

“(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.”

— Harold Bloom

“ Picnic, Lightning It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at home. Safes…

— Billy Collins

“Don't haggle and nag them; you were so recently of them yourself. They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they…

— Ray Bradbury

“Tonight I feel like a shooting star, but I hope my shine will last much longer.”

— Bernard Jan

“They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that someday it'll have…

— Ray Bradbury

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak,…

— Ellie Goulding

So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs,…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge…

— Ray Bradbury

“Anxiety is a meteor shower of what-ifs.”

— Max Lucado

Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't…

— Elif Batuman

I haven't experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up the sky in a flash of…

— Ryan Lee

I gotta shine boy I be a star, on fire that's a meteor.

— Big Sean