“Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of… — Emma Ghent Curtis Copy Share Image
Some days are sunny and some are cloudy But you don't need to show your mood. Because you mood effects everyone not… — Me And Kaden Copy Share Image
“A poem is a skeletal shape. When I say it to you, I am dropping the empty shell of a crab into… — Jeffrey L. Hollman Copy Share Image
A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder. — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
“«¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon” — Francis William Bourdillon Copy Share Image
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“Only if I knew that knowing it would bring a burden I could seldom carry and ferry among those I know, only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“Love Has a way of wilting Or blossoming At the strangest, Most unpredictable hour. This is how love is, An uncontrollable beast… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“[...] the body is what we lean toward, tensing as it darts, dancing away. but it's the voice that enters us. even… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“My second thoughts condemn And wonder how I dare To look you in the eye. What right have I to swear Even… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“On 9 Jan 2024 at 16:30 Wajid Shaikh wrote this poem on the same maze Where they had met- Milenge tujhse hum… — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Poetry ~~ No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is… — Henry Daid Thoreau Journal 26 Jan 1840 Copy Share Image
“When Hitler marched across the Rhine To take the land of France, La dame de fer decided, ‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Fly (poem from the book Blue Bridge) Delicate, / butterfly winged, / we vainly push against the sky, / each trying to… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“It's a poem about moths. But it's also a poem about psychopaths. I get it copied. And stick it in a frame.… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“The enemy came to steel,destroy and kill our leader, our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
“Life's like us We find it- and then the death A poem for a goodbye? Why insist?” — Daie-Soko Copy Share Image
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe 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
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff 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
“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
“It’s been hard to believe in love again, but faith is at the center of every request.” — David Campos Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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