“Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Death is trash. Love is a robust engagement with the trash of another.” — Joshua Bennett Copy Share Image
“The enemy came to steal,kill and destroy our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“… Bless their believing happiness will make them happy; that the ocean is magical, a kingdom where we go to be human,… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly,… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
“I walk through the old yellow sunlight to get to my kitchen table the poem about me lying there with the books… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Life is like that. You think you’re just slogging along and then something reminds you that just getting up in the morning… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity,… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
“Very possibly this was the night my white-knight complex, as Solange put it, would get me killed. Someone had better write a… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest, Children dying in the road, Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“[Poem II] I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“ HOME no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“Oh, a sleeping drunkard Up in Central Park, And a lion-hunter In the jungle dark, And a Chinese dentist, And a British… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I… — Gerard Nolst Trenité Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such Although I liked a few folk pretty well Love must be vaster… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Sing a song of suspense in which the players die. Four and twenty ravens in an Edgar Allan Pie. When the pie… — Jessica McHugh Copy Share Image
“The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you, it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know, your… — Tanzy Sayadi Copy Share Image
“THE MOON was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Must always try to be out there Getting everything out there Take what is inside yourself And place it out there.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
My poem will be always incomplete because it cannot be as beautiful as you are — Nishant Grover Copy Share Image
“My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.” — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“She knew she was really sad when she stopped loving the things she loved.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.” — Ewuare Osayande Copy Share Image
“All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand,… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
![“Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2e6/seamus-heaney-1711_anything-can-happen_anything-can-happen-is-also-incidentally_181651.jpg)
![“[Poem II] I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other, you’ve been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed: our friend the poet comes into my room where I’ve been writing for days, drafts, carbons, poems are scattered everywhere, and I…” quote by Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/402/adrienne-rich-803_long-way_poem-ii-i-wake-up-in-your-bed-i-know-i-h_1124584.jpg)
