My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“If we learn to love someone for their imperfections that reflect our own, we eventually appreciate the thought that even the most… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
“Dance,' they told me, and I stood still, and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The last great poem has already been written and will continue to write itself until you accept that you are the author… — Sophie McKeand Copy Share Image
Of course, when a poem is being born, the reasoning part of the brain throbs away at full throttle, but all the… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
“We are the poem, his poem says, that emerges from the unity of the body and the mind. That fragile unity--this brief… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“THE MASTER MIND OF KILLING You killed, you hid, you killed! So many innocent people all over the world, The mastermind of… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“A voice from the dark called out, "The poets must give us imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar imagination of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“This is a Personal Poem My self's self is thinking about itself. Trying to sell its self a new self. Don't worry,… — Alex Dimitrov Copy Share Image
“MOM Wholeheartedly, She loved me- And inspired me- With transcending devotion. It was a blessing- To have been her son, To have… — Giorge Leedy Copy Share Image
“I know now that the poem in my head, the one that pushed me to the page, begged me - or dared… — Juan-Paolo Perre Copy Share Image
I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
“My friend Debbie from Texas sent me a poem to cheer me up. Her father told her that a friend of his… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human,… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
“Even stars are formed by loss. You know astronomers believe that galaxies are forged out of huge collapsing stars--- hollow, imploding on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless. Three… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then,… — Cristen Rodgers Copy Share Image
“A voice, a tone, a feeling Deep inside, growing bigger and brighter. Shining against the dark area in my soul. Telling everyone… — Marcus J. King Copy Share Image
“I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“all hopes there, so close to each other, are pulled into the void every night; when a band of pale twinkles milking… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“His mind took one of its odd jumps. He opened a clean page in his grimy notebook, and in the twig-divided shade… — Saul Bellow 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
“We get tired by trying way too hard, To get something we probably not look at, The devil distracts us with the… — Ritu Negi 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
AND NOW FOR MY POEM!!!!!!!!!! *ahem* roses are red violets are blue sugar is sweet and so are you….. but the roses… — Amy Dang Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
“I am that I am a Goddess, a God entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations offered by Heaven and Earth… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“Easter blessings All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves awaken our senses and power to love and be whole Our Mother Earth, Our… — Ramon Ravenswood 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
“Belief In Self If you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might… — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
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