“Secure in his flight Rider on the constant winds Hawk flies through his days Looks then to the east Prompted by fate’s… — Steve Robison Copy Share Image
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
“I am, a shadow that grows longer as the sun moves, drawn out on a thread of wonder. If I bear burdens… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“there are stars you haven't seen and loves you haven't loved there's light you haven't felt and sunrises yet to dawn there… — Gaby Comprés Copy Share Image
“Season's Greetings by Stewart Stafford Season's Greetings To those we are needing, While I am leading The Festive charge. Christmas love is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“(...) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
You are my world You are my joy You are my life You are my everything The moment I laid eyes on… — Jessica Guillium Copy Share Image
“My love, I have tried with all my being to grasp a form comparable to thine own, but nothing seems worthy; I… — Anthony Kolos Copy Share Image
“I am who I say I am, I'm not some fantasy of how you think you think you know or who I… — James Howe Copy Share Image
“The fusty showman fumbles, must Fit in a particle of dust The universe, for fear it gain Its freedom from my cube… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Hang tight Hold on Look up Stay strong Hang on Hold tight Look strong Stay up One day I might break One… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor.” I felt my airway constrict. Damn,… — Christina Lee Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, we will lose each other to something. I would hope for grand circumstance—death or disaster. But it might not be that… — Tishani Doshi Copy Share Image
“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others saw. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The Congregating of Stars They often meet in mountain lakes, No matter how remote, no matter how deep Down and far they… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
