A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Athena's jealousy made a monster of fair Medusa. I often wonder what beauty my own demons have destroyed.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
“Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other ("Poem")” — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be… — Alysia Harris Copy Share Image
“be the kiss in my hair that no one sees move, when i move sigh, when i sigh... be that line from… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“love ridden i searched for you in corridors, open doors and in endless seas of similes and metaphors but we never were… — K. Y. Robinson Copy Share Image
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Secure in his flight Rider on the constant winds Hawk flies through his days Looks then to the east Prompted by fate’s… — Steve Robison Copy Share Image
“Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day,… — Robin Craig Clark Copy Share Image
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens.… — Paul Reps Copy Share Image
“As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Great Britain be proud, be blessed, be bold! Show the world what are you made of; show them you are made of… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“The soul is a divider of hearts, a subtle harp its love forsakes the drunkards and debauchees love forgets nothing, but nothing… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of sight, as if in… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer. Rare is the rose-burst of dawn, but the secret… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
“I WONDER IF HEAVEN GOT A GAY GHETTO Lorde know(s) cis-hets don't like me Baldwin know(s) how white homos exoticize me I… — Christopher Soto Copy Share Image
“I notice you have the assault proof vest - So it's my fault I guess. So apparently I didn't say 'no' as… — Steve Connell Copy Share Image
“Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, ‘Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’ ‘No, what?’ I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I did a short film at Outfest, 'Where Are the Dolls,' based on an Elizabeth Bishop poem done, where I play this… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
