A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“They tell me to be quiet When I’d rather cause a riot And have everyone screaming Out their eccentric meaning.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
“Iron helmets will not save/ Even heroes from the grave/ Good man's blood will drain away/ While the wickid win the day.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“...a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN If you put a twizzler in your ear it… — Sam Pink Copy Share Image
A thing may fail as a poem because it tries to do what a poem cannot do: it tries to become a… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I dreamt of you last night, vivid and consuming and gone as I woke up faded from memory before I had the… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Five minutes ago escapes him as he chases 1934, unaware of the present beauty out the window, the banks of windswept snow—… — Anthony Walton Copy Share Image
“A weird, romantic Poem. You're either gonna do it or you're either gonna not. You're either gonna pull it or you're gonna… — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I am a lantern, I glow bright I break for day, and wait for night Without me you’d be blind You take… — Carlos Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“THE SILENT PEOPLE Some people are so rude, Living their lives with no concern for others, Or possibly just intent on pissing… — Giorge Leedy Copy Share Image
“I like the lady horses best, how they make it all look easy, like running 40 miles per hour is as fun… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“Storm Ending Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“Poem Heart of the heartless world, Dear heart, the thought of you Is the pain at my side, The shadow that chills… — John Cornford Copy Share Image
“Twas a sheep not a lamb that strayed away In the parable Jesus told, A grown-up sheep that strayed away From the… — C.C. Miller Copy Share Image
