My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“My mother despises what can never truly be done so she does not care for cooking or cleaning.” — Faith Shearin Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“terucap rindu sepasang insan.. geliat sang cinta di lubuk hati.. terurai kata nan indah menawan.. gundah pun sirna dibuai si mimpi.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Shade for a man And shelter for animals, Planted in your name, May you be the same for those around you, Every… — Nancy J. Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your… — John Green Copy Share Image
“No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Enséñame a volar, mi mariposa hermosa,’ Tim said suddenly. ‘It’s from a poem I— Well, it’s from a poem.’ ‘What’s it mean?’… — Jay Bell Copy Share Image
“Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Cruel, Clever Cat. Sally, having swallowed cheese, Directs down holes the scented breeze, Enticing thus with baited breath Nice mice to an… — Geoffrey Taylor Copy Share Image
“MY FATHER If I have to write a poem about my father it has to be about integrity and kindness — the… — Neena H Brar Copy Share Image
“What would you have me do? Seek for the patronage of some great man, And like a creeping vine on a tall… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
“Christ, it's embarrassing--I start thinking about this goddam poem I sent her when we first started goin' around together. 'Rose my color… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Poem of the Song About Hope" I. Give me lilies, lilies, And roses too. But if you have no lilies Or roses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“If my like for you was a footy crowd, you'd be deaf cos of the roar. And if my like for you… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“On the Gallows Once Kofi Awoonor I crossed quite a few of your rivers, my gods, into this plain where thirst reigns… — Kofi Awoonor Copy Share Image
“Baby girl, You tried, You tried so hard, Don't you worry? You have all the right, To sleep tight at night!” — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“The way you walk is slash and burn. Like understatement's now a crime.” — Justin Quinn Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
A poem should never be changed out of context. A poem is your heart, and thoughts. The words are your soul and… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“She knew she was really sad when she stopped loving the things she loved.” — Atticus Poetry 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
My poem will be always incomplete because it cannot be as beautiful as you are — Nishant Grover 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
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
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
