The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Words fail to describe what i feel anymore. Let me be numb for a while, let me be sore.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
“All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“Whenever you touch a poem that caresses your soul, breathe it gently for it might be the wind that perfects your life's… — A. Saleh Copy Share Image
“My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone, for reasones unknow to me.” — lana del rey Copy Share Image
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“My heart is crushed, my knees are weakened. My tears drench my pillow, my tears flood my bed every night. Do you… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, And if I die before I wake,… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker. Come see the freak named after his deceased father. Come see the prince who… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Twilight Surprise” poem: “The sky burns down, A rim of coals glowing gold and red, Limned with orange again And kissed with… — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
“It is winter now, and the roses are blooming again, their petals bright against the snow. My father died last April; my… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“She grew tired of shielding her body, For societal expectation and propriety, Double standards and sobriety, Ideologies of prudent cries, And boys… — Jacqueline Simon Gunn Copy Share Image
“You know that book of poems I’m always carrying around? [...] In one of her poems, she calls hope the ‘thing with… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't have to be sunny It wouldn't have to be anything else then just that It would really simplify my walk… — Jackie Clark Copy Share Image
“Poem of Thanks Years later, long single, I want to turn to his departed back, and say, What gifts we had of… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“ Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers of… — Bob Hicok Copy Share Image
“My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those flowering trees. Your sparkling dreams,… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“Rivers, water streams, water falls, water lakes, seas and oceans confirm Your creativity.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Another day without no rain, is another day of sorrow. And if it doesn't rain today, I hope it rains tomorrow.” — JM Carydice Copy Share Image
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I will kiss you here. And here. And here. And here. You express me better than I express myself. You shall be… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I understood the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I'm fond of Derek Walcott too. I could eat his poem "Love After Love." Just peel the words off the page and… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?' — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?” — David S. Cross Copy Share Image
“Sure, we thought the acres That we tilled were sacred, But how could we have known That wheat can haunt like ghosts” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
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