“And you’re a tall drink of water because we’re so fucking thirsty” — Andrew Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody has held me and no hands have strayed and even though I'm drunk with love, my… — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
“I hope reading my vulnerable thoughts will help you move forward with your journey. A new start. My darling, just let it… — Angela Colleen Prendergast Copy Share Image
“Pity that child who was born near Rouen, His only crime, to arrive deformed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I am most spectacular in convalescence / of the night sky / when I break the shell / in search of silence… — Aaron Kent Copy Share Image
“when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“from time to time, i think of him watching me from over the top of his glasses, or eating candy from a… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure if I can write a love poem while it’s still just a prospect pirouetting on the horizon, but when… — Simone Stolzoff Copy Share Image
My attention span was quite short and I just wanted to use a lot of beautiful words. When I read a poem… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“Even the simplest poem May destroy your immunity to human emotions. All poems must carry a Government warning. Words Can seriously affect… — Elma Mitchell Copy Share Image
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“Decay spread in me low and high, Organ by organ, I see myself beginning to die, Not a single hour passes by… — Abū Nuwās Copy Share Image
“Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is the way it's always been: bad with large numbers. It is still… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
Because I'm a younger laureate, it seemed important to me to do something - not to just accept the honor of the… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“I’m a picture without a frame. A poem without a rhyme. A car with three wheels. A sun without fire. I am… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies. What you reject today, you could accept tomorrow.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Sour Milk You can't make it turn sweet again. Once it was an innocent color like the flowers of wild strawberries, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be… — Noor Hindi Copy Share Image
