“Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“i believe that everyone in the world. has one poem. that is their soulmate.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now. — Hilde Domin Copy Share Image
“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your… — John Green Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“I am that I am a Goddess, a God entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations offered by Heaven and Earth… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“Easter blessings All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves awaken our senses and power to love and be whole Our Mother Earth, Our… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“His mind took one of its odd jumps. He opened a clean page in his grimy notebook, and in the twig-divided shade… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“ LIFE ON ITS EDGE' 'What the title reflects? It says about life's edge' 'Edge, where life has nothing, nothing to achieve.… — Samar Sudha Copy Share Image
“Be the man who has the spirit of a ruthless tiger, ravaging every dusty corner of my soul. Be the man for… — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
“I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Everything is temporary, almost like a passing fase, some of laughter Some of pain. What we would do, If we had the… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Human pigeons there the dancers Gunfighters: metal-romancers This war needs no necromancer Iron shells its spell-commencer Journalists, writers: freelancer Donate words as… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“The Expanding Universe of Poetry Often I lose myself in such distances and numbers that I fear I shall never find myself… — Ondra Lysohorsky Copy Share Image
“There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“The amazing feeling that triggers the fountain of words that flow in my belly.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“Mini cat poem for ISF kids: William went high Into the air Furly had stepped On the edge of The board” — Debby Feo Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book. — George Murray Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. — Leopold Schefer Copy Share Image
“How many great gems were lost to thought and not put down to pen. You can but think of just a few… — L.F. Young Copy Share Image
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot… — Goldie Nanwani Copy Share Image
“The rainbow across the sky after a storm confirms Your kindness and Your forgiving heart.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
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