“How I'm glad to go back home! Once I truly have no more worry. Many of those who are in a hurry… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“He knows he will be hurt. The warnings come to him in bed because repose threatens him” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life” — Frank O'Hara 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
A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“Firm was my resolve and fragile was my heart. I saw many ends and many a start.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
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
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
“The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How… — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
“Give me one more night to taste the dark When wolves imitate a lone dog's bark Let those secrets remain unspoken Fallen… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“Pay to go inside Neruda's home A body lies there with no dome. But right there in the front hall Lean a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“We march through snow and we march through rain With naught to lose and naught to gain Sun and moon and sun… — Sarah Delena White Copy Share Image
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Answers I kept my answers small and kept them near; Big questions bruised my mind but still I let Small answers be… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“ Apology I didn't mean to say so much to you. I should have thought to let the evening end by looking… — Mary Szybist Copy Share Image
Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true —Dylan Thomas,… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Rising and falling of the sun confirm Your kingship and Your rulership.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too! — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the… — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
“True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in… — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“The sun is also a star, and it’s our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers You’ve got nothing, I’ve got nothing, And it’s not a good thing.” — Arzum Uzun Copy Share Image
“I love what I see because one day I will cease to see it. And simply because it is.” — Ricardo Reis Copy Share Image
“They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. --From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Lo! A call for a bloody trial- Retribution should it hail! Whose? you ask, For he that deems it a worthy task!” — Carol Robi Copy Share Image
“...before the dawn I leave the night behind me and before my heart I let you leave me behind. - from the… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
