“Mirror, mirror on the wall, I have placed you in my hall Where I wander every day. Echo beauty, and you’ll stay.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer. — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
“I am too pure for you or anyone. From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a disease spread by people who try to use other people to cure their loneliness.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“You are the remedy of intensity i need in my life, to spin me out of the miserable monotony of working on… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With a metal heart I came to this life, My head was a crucible, full of elixir. Pearl by pearl My heart… — Hersh Saeed Copy Share Image
I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
My favorite kind of day, is a rainy; cloudy kind of day. I wish rain would fall everyday, as I lie down… — Kasey Clark Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“About your easy heads my prayers I said with syllables of clay. What gift, I asked, shall I bring now Before I… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You shall no longer take things at second or third hand… nor look through the eyes of the dead… nor feed on… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Better Associations: If you associate yourself with a change maker, Your life will by all means become better. You will wink at… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“What would you have me do? Seek for the patronage of some great man, And like a creeping vine on a tall… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“Christ, it's embarrassing--I start thinking about this goddam poem I sent her when we first started goin' around together. 'Rose my color… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“MY FATHER If I have to write a poem about my father it has to be about integrity and kindness — the… — Neena H Brar Copy Share Image
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
“one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“These bones I carry were borrowed from women much stronger than I. Know that when you need them, you can borrow mine.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
“It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.” — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“O my Homunculus, I am ill. I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. From the poem "Cut", 24 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range” — Mpho Leteng Copy Share Image
“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.” — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“He offered his love ... she could not bother, She gives her love to the other! The other!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“You said we can't happen, but darling, we started happening the very first day we met.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
“It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?” — David S. Cross Copy Share Image
When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?' — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
