I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“There’s a poem about onions,” she said. “It’s about how memory is like an onion—it makes you cry.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I love you, Mom. ___I love you more. I love you to the moon! ___I love you to my core.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot writes in his poem “East Coker”: “Old men ought to be explorers.” — Guideposts 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
“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
“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
“Love left us long back, we just got better. You at pretending, Me at hiding.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
“Don't focus on the words i write, pay attention to the ones i don't. These lines won't tell you much about me,… — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
“I cast myself at him, like a fool, but he didn't see me. And then one day he noticed I was beautiful… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Mother loved the wind. When I was growing up, she would recite this poem to me. Who has seen the wind? Neither… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Offering I made a poem going to sleep last night, woke in sunlight, it was clean forgotten. If it was any good,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Martin's Monsanto poem holds devastating power. I heard the first public reading at the Resurgence Festival of well-being in London. It brought… — Tony Juniper Copy Share Image
“Bob's Words: Nobody knows what tomorrow brings By loving, giving, caring And sharing today Lets one know that if tomorrow Does not… — Greg Noack Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go in the next catastrophé Be it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ry Do not fear that your stay will be… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“Solo For Ear-Trumpet The carriage brushes through the bright Leaves (violent jets from life to light); Strong polished speed is plunging, heaves… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Poetry gave me the life I live: many of the people I love, the places I've traveled, the things I've learned about… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
“The extremity of her sensitivity impressed a richly idle princely family, of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be by the… — Joseph Stanton Copy Share Image
I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
“My favorite words in the world are these: “what” and “if” in conjunction. They question curiosities in simple form and function. “What”… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massive insect of glitter, a chandelier… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it… — James Schuyler 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
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
“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 poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. — Wendell Berry 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
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 believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. — Alice Oswald 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
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
“Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“You've slipped away like a fistful of sand. You've vanished so quickly like a wind. Do you know how I long to… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“My tears of joy hear the raindrops crying, as the rain never wants to pour down on my cloudy days when I… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
![“The extremity of her sensitivity impressed a richly idle princely family, of her discomfort, bothered as she had to be by the absurd softness of the ample beddings, not to mention the pillow piles aggravating her much lamented acrophobic dis-ease. [from the poem, Princess and the Pea ]” quote by Joseph Stanton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b63/joseph-stanton-250502_fairy-tales_the-extremity-of-her-sensitivity-impress_1015868.jpg)
