“The night has become mine; I have fallen in love with the night.” — Natalia Beshqoy Copy Share Image
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
“…what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You were sunrise to me rise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew” — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking” — Carrie Lorig Copy Share Image
“Many Castles On My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the… — Silent Lotus Copy Share Image
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business,… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
“My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“if the rain you left behind for me to deal with taught me anything in this life, it would be that after… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I think tension between the intimate and the vast is at the heart of every poem by any poet, though of course… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Of all the days dropped in time's pocket This day will seek acknowledgement with a child's shy asking, because the love between… — Vassar Miller Bagatelle Copy Share Image
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet,… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,” he said, “That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and quiet mind.” I looked… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It's a poem, for crying out loud! The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at… — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
