“I live I fight I bleed I die For love. I am Fey" ~I am Fey, a warrior’s poem by Evanaris vel… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
“Do not fall in love with me, for I will break your heart, long before you realize, you were going to break… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Like I said, no Indian I’ve ever heard of has ever been or seen an angel.” — Natalie Díaz Copy Share Image
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.” — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“Poem Words from the heart Breaking, teaching, healing The deepest, purest form of art Feeling” — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
“Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“I know: in a dream, the tea could stay forever the exact right drinking temperature & I never want that. I want… — Chen Chen Copy Share Image
A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that's different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Crossing lines that can never be uncrossed. Clangoring out words that can never be forgot. Leaving welts behind with their lashing tongues.… — A.Y. Greyson Copy Share Image
“And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire -- clearly I'm… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
“Your daily war chant: ( screaming it is mandatory! ) Ooooooooh today, today I will see, what a happy place the world… — Janosch Fingerhut Copy Share Image
“Scarring smiles, hidden tears, You stand, heads bowed and revere The soul before us, burnt and torn Her faded essence, we sadly… — Amelia Mysko Copy Share Image
“I do think that all of us think in poems. I think of a poem as being deeper than headline news. You… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
No words I write can ever say, How much I miss you every day. As time goes by the loneliness grows, How… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHT I was born the day I thought: What is? What was? And What if? I was transformed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“-A Word On Statistics- Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: almost all the… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“The first intimation of a new romance for a woman of the court was the arrival at her door of a messenger… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“ The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Gentle whispers from above Awakened me more Than ever did This loud world” — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
“Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a… — Drew Myron Copy Share Image
Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
“Take me when I'm wild. Take me when I'm free. Take me for me and I will take you as you want… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“i reach the perfect cube, and wait for somebody to pick the phone back at home.” — Abhijit Sarmah Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
“the star that I was wishing the light that I was kissing sitting back and reminiscing that night, it was missing.” — Lokesh Fouzdar Copy Share Image
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. — Jaime Gil de Biedma Copy Share Image
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say. — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“In the manner of one recognizing a line from a familiar poem in a strange book.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A soul mate would be great, but at some point I'd settle for someone who gets back to text messages.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
They say you spend your whole life re-writing the first poem you ever loved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sundays.” — B. Devine Copy Share Image
