Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“How to Write a Poem Catch the air around the butterfly.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
“Mountains, hills and valleys confirm the beauty of Your holiness.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“I found the best thing I could do was just to type away at my own work and let the dying die… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable. — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Sickness awakens sadness sleeps- Moments of aloneness results into peace.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.” — Robert Wells Copy Share Image
“Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
“The poem is furious ascension; poetry, the game of arid riverbanks. I am a man of riverbanks – excavation and inflammation –… — René Char Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“From this arid sphere every discourse and every poem sets forth; and every journey through forests, battles, treasures, banquets, bedchambers, brings us… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“7. The first time I arrived here, I never thought I am small and luminous 8. The body, burdened and miraculous 9.… — Erika Meitner Copy Share Image
“Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude. Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the… — Taylor Patton Copy Share Image
“the answer is to just let go the betrayal is to the past the cocoon dangles empty the desire outlasts the object… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Quote from "The Whole World Is Gone" "… It's sensual, though, too, and interestingly mental. What I do alone, loving him in… — Jennifer Grotz Copy Share Image
“Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
“DAISIES It is possible, I suppose that sometime we will learn everything there is to learn: what the world is, for example,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Night after night on starry wings Night lovers soared so high Miles apart, across the oceans Their love forgot to sigh In… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Ah Sun-flower! weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun: Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey… — William Blake Copy Share Image
You were here and the pain was gone but as soon as you came you left the pain was back and so… — Tanner Warfel Copy Share Image
The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
