“I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do not fear the night When I know that today I am bathed in a light It cannot be stolen away” — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
“The editor wants something a little more oblique, a little less opaque. Let the reader watch you / dissolve.” — Aaron Kent Copy Share Image
“Am I still a hero if the only person I save is myself? Am I still a villain if the only person… — B. Damani Copy Share Image
“Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“(Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.” — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“We did not know she was sick, but she has come to the fence, walking like a woman who is balancing a… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The Nuremberg judges added illegal hanging atrocities to violent Hitlerian racist ferocities.” — Saiom Shriver Copy Share Image
“I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“My surname for a mask to pretend! I have no stand to protest, but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
“Quit bothering with angels, I say. They’re no good for Indians. Remember what happened last time some white god came floating across… — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
“The horses have stopped their clippity-clop, but feet are too slow for where I must go. So here I shall stay until… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The sweetest melody that plays on starry nights and wintry days, most soothing to my listening ears and calming to beleaguering fears,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I'm trying to let a poem do what a poem does: Make things simpler We don't need poems to make things more… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The storms inside uncoil into sky held calm by far seeing eyes Memories dressed in the translucent trickery of the mind, so… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
“Don’t pack out! To some people, you make life bright When you decide to dim your light Their lives will be full… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“So about an hour later we are in the taxi shooting along empty country roads towards town. The April light is clear… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“The Old Man at the Wheel Measured against the immeasurable universe, no word you have spoken brought light. Brought light to what,… — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“Moonless nights haunt me. They evoke remembrances of a carefree life when I dreamed without doubt to what my future could be.… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
“HUG DAY POEM: Wrap me in your hug.. make me feel happy! Hold me tight and close.. not like a pillow or… — Vikrmn Copy Share Image
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“A YEARNING HEART My heart is hurting right now, I don't know what to do, Father say something to me, I don't… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“ Lemon balm soothe all troublesome care reviveth the heart and ward off despair. ” — Virginia Hartman Copy Share Image
“What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?” — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so. from the prose poem… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Do not worry about your contradictions - Persephone is both floral maiden and queen of death. You, too, can be both.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t scared to walk away, she was scared he wouldn’t follow.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Don't let a king or a prince or a fairytale tell you you are smaller than that or who you are meant… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“There's a reason they didn't keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“What if the poem loses? What if it never tastes victory like the intent it was written with?” — Akif Kichloo Copy Share Image
“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“So this is love: the Sculptor’s chisel. And stone, which in its whole life does not utter a single word, suddenly sings.” — Milan Rúfus Copy Share Image
From my poem, these are the words I choose. They describe me, and everything I've been through. — Leslie Copy Share Image
“I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
