Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“The truth is the object of our lust But the light is still so very dim…” — Andrea Barbosa Copy Share Image
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I wrote my first poem about a bunny. ‘Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.” — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
“The moon is my fear. The sun is my heart afire. The stars, my love songs.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart,… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow! Droplets run down the wall, where do they go? Letters in the raw,… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
You cannot create A monster and then Condemn it. Hate Its ugly features, Its terrible gait. When I look into The mirror,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there a fire, to light up all my desires. I guess there's water though, to all the lemons I throw ,… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
“Keep Moving... Move forward Let go Give in Decide and just Do Progress every day And make one step forward no matter… — Emma Daley Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest, Children dying in the road, Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Truth is not a thing Or a concept. It is as multidimensional In its meaning As it is in its reflection. It… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“ She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I am the slave of the Master of Prophets And my fealty to him has no beginning. I am a slave of… — Yusuf Nabhani Copy Share Image
This isnt a quote more or less a poem... My legs are too heavy to run tonight We both know were lonely… — Jose Ruiz Copy Share Image
“A vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
“Three birds sit on a wire One bird poops Three birds shit on a wire” — Eric Mancini Copy Share Image
“Things are always terrible for some people. The question is the ratio of the palpable hurt to the general session of life… — Maureen N. McLane Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. — Douglas Dunn Copy Share Image
“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.” — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.” — Jen Currin Copy Share Image
“ She has the look of one who seeks some greater and destroying passion: ” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“If you are a dreamer, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax-golden tales to spin; come in! Come in!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His relentless lust Failed to accept the demands of love, He got back his senses And responded to her But, just too… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
