The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We need each other yet, we bleed each other of the very life we are all drowning in with one another...” — The1Essence Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Never have I fallen But I am quickly on my way You hold a heart in your hands That has never before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.” — Sharon Doubiago Copy Share Image
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“I've heard you say so many a time That I know just the right words to say, just the right lines to… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Even the simplest poem May destroy your immunity to human emotions. All poems must carry a Government warning. Words Can seriously affect… — Elma Mitchell Copy Share Image
My attention span was quite short and I just wanted to use a lot of beautiful words. When I read a poem… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them.… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more… — Jericho Brown Copy Share Image
“BLACK AND WHITE Oh Princess of the Sun. Daughter of nature. Love of the trees. Your eyes are with tears but love… — Victor Vote Copy Share Image
“THE DANCE OF ANGELS Suzy Kassem He spins and spins and spins To remove all three layers of him And with devout… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem,… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“Dear . . . You’re the poem I couldn’t finish The journey I should have never started I saw tragedy in our… — Samantha King Copy Share Image
“A JEWELRY STORE NAMED INDIA If you hold this Dazzling emerald Up to the sky, It will shine a billion Beautiful miracles… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The world's an incessant transformation, and to meditate is awareness, with no clinging to, no working on, the mind. It is a… — Robert Gray Copy Share Image
“It is a two-line poem, which could be really sweet, or sour at times and it depends, totally on the way we… — Saravana Kumar Murugan Copy Share Image
“In determination of prevention, as a form of aid to human development, I will attempt to comprehend meaning.” FROM THE POEM Sketch” — Nikolay Boychev Copy Share Image
“Everything I do you are here to give me an assurance that I will succeed. What an awesome Father you are.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Love left us long back, we just got better. You at pretending, Me at hiding.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff Copy Share Image
There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“It’s been hard to believe in love again, but faith is at the center of every request.” — David Campos Copy Share Image
“Alkohol ubija... znamo, o znamo, Znamo da alkohol škodi, No rakije, rakije, rakije amo, Jer utjehe nema u vodi.” — Dobriša Cesarić Copy Share Image
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“So old were you, Grammpa— the last time I saw you, anaemic You looked like the monsoon in my town.” — Abhijit Sarmah Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot writes in his poem “East Coker”: “Old men ought to be explorers.” — Guideposts Copy Share Image
