As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“Stay beautiful because the world is beautiful, So is the universe!” — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“I have a desperate desire to put a ring on your finger. For there's nothing sexier than kissing a glistering hand in… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“Monsieur, you must be mad! Box Five can never be had For money, love or the world ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation.” — Kelly Vang Copy Share Image
“and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I want a fairytale romance in a make-believe land. Let’s run through the beautiful meadow and pretend the walls aren’t closing in.… — Kayla Krantz Copy Share Image
“Will and Love practiced to invoke her Majesty Kundalini In the world where Adepts die and bloom as Lotuses The perfection of… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
The heft of a life in the hands grows both lighter and weightier. Over time, my life has become more saturated with… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“This poem is the poem I'm writing because we aren't speaking, and it is making my heart hurt so bad that sometimes… — Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
“For this, let gardens grow, where beelines end, sighing in roses, saffron blooms, buddleia; where bees pray on their knees, sing, praise… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“I am the voice of reason of past of present and the future all at once. I am the voice of the… — Antonia Rapheal Copy Share Image
“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
You think you know someone but really you dont. You get so close to them and become best friends After a while… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“A Poem I Like: With a hand that is greater than mine she gently makes my coarse life fine and all the… — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
“Let no one reduce to tears or reproach This statement of the mastery of God, Who, with magnificent irony, gave Me at… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Discouragement, fear, and depression— three villains who lurk in the dark. They slip inside souls with a blindfold and goals to shatter… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
