You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking” — Carrie Lorig Copy Share Image
“They find me odd, and whisper behind hands…And my brutal desires sink hooks into their lips…” — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Your thoughts were deeper than your mind, your little eyes pierced through the heart of your nation.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Sipping tea with glee beneath a gooseberry tree. I wish Alice were here. Oh, my dear, do not fear, she will be.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart,… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“The moon has a face like the clock in the hall; She shines on thieves on the garden wall, On streets and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf.… — Harryette Mullen Copy Share Image
Inside my stomach, the butterflies start to flutter, And when I try to talk, my words have a little st-stutter. You're on… — Amber Hope Copy Share Image
In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few that touch the light “Will… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“(...) It,s hard not to be able. There, look there!/ I cannot get the movement nor the light;/Sometimes it almost makes a… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
“The Winter Miles The roads of solitude grow whiter, And stones beneath us paler, While the green fades completely — Ahead of us. Grey is… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“We don't know how to say goodbye, We wander on, shoulder to shoulder Already the sun is going down You're moody, and… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“The Garden Under Snow " Now the garden is under snow a blank page our footprints write on clare who was never… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“I HAVE A REASON TO SMILE Life is so interesting, I have a reason to smile, Life is so good for me,… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
“…what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You were sunrise to me rise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew” — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“With a ring around the rosary And a pocket full of crosses Ashes to ashes They'll all fall down” — Matthew Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“When I feel lonely you are here beside me with your loving and caring touch.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lived Is an historian & an artifact, For they hold all their time within them.” — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“This separation happened for a reason, this esason is for our own good; God is just positioning us.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“life has me holding a grudge pouring coffee on my recollections not revealing where the moon finds its water” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
“An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! How more horrible that that Is the curse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
