“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.” — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Like young fern shoots my child's fingers curled. I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.” — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Standing is stupid, Crawling's a curse, Skipping is silly, Walking is worse. Hopping is hopeless, Jumping's a chore, Sitting is senseless, Leaning's… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Writing has always been my go-to form of expression. Whenever I was going through something as a kid, I would write it… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Silence is my defense. The protector whom I trust. A sturdy shield, A loyal safe-keeper, A sentinel, impassable. Silence is my refuge.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“We could not swim, but now we are swimming— We have to swim. It is not fair. It is never fair. We… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Sunflowers, Not Facing the Sun (A Poem) I stand tall As gracious as one could be Blooming to my best As slender… — Annie Ali Copy Share Image
Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“At real stripper bars women just dance—so many things they could be checking off their lists. I guess men don’t want to… — Jill McDonough Copy Share Image
“ With whom do you believe your lot is cast? From where does your strength come? I think somehow, somewhere every poem… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Let's Be Clear To be born in the ghetto doesn't make me The most monstrous creature in the world, To be born… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“The Life is Poem, we write when we are Young, sing along all through Life, and we reap the truth when we… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself. — Jose Marti 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
“The Nuremberg judges added illegal hanging atrocities to violent Hitlerian racist ferocities.” — Saiom Shriver 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
“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
“The editor wants something a little more oblique, a little less opaque. Let the reader watch you / dissolve.” — Aaron Kent 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
“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
“God doesn't listen to me too, but people have their suspicions. सुनता तो रब हमारी भी नहीं, पर लोगों को अल्लाह पे शक बेशक है” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“That year, we knew the sky existed because we believed in the storm, but we never saw the sky.” — Jorge Galán Copy Share Image
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... — John Berger Copy Share Image
