“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
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
“Your thoughts were deeper than your mind, your little eyes pierced through the heart of your nation.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“The one who can draw your widest smile is also the one who can throw you to the farthest exile” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.” — Sinovuyo Nkonki Copy Share Image
A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge. — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
See those tears gathered in my eyes those are the tears I refuse to cry, although I see right through ur lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak,… — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
“I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“His love for his wife and son was not beautiful—no one would ever write a poem to the passion of a man… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint,… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A Poem for a Trick Roses are red, Violets are blue Dumb ass nigguh I was never in love with U I… — Pamela M Johnson Copy Share Image
“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“The question of what kind of a thing a text or poem is now becomes a function neither of what the poet… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
