“With a beartrap around my ankle I search the pathways of your childhood soul as sunlight sneaks above the barbershop (from the… — Reyes Cardenas Copy Share Image
Song of Myself is a new kind of poem , which is shocked, puzzled, amused, amazed all the average readers, but it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I read that poem you wrote to be on our first date and I shed tears of happiness, knowing that you meant… — Josephine Copy Share Image
“It was time for me to go, to accept the dream was over and the poem exchange meant nothing; that the person… — Julie Gittus Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“These words are my mother’s, my father’s, my brother’s, my lender’s, my garbage man’s—the poem runs like oil on fire beneath this… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
“as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for any individual upon this earth… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Woman of Mother Earth Oh, what is this I’m feeling, Mother Earth beneath my feet . . . Endless roots journey, through… — Kathleen Klawitter Copy Share Image
“The Poem About Taking out the Trash In the vast emptiness of darkness, Stars are being born and are burning out; Galaxies… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“He spun her world in silver-blue Catching in the light the faintest hues A maiden from a castle tall Its towers spun… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“It has rained for five days running the world is a round puddle of sunless water where small islands are only beginning… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft… — John Donne Copy Share Image
You saw me being dumb, but I did to make u laugh You saw me being stupid, but I did to make… — Nidhi Saini Copy Share Image
There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
“Tiho, o tiho govori mi jesen; Šuštanjem lišća i šapatom kiše. Al zima srcu govori još tiše. I kada sniježi, a spušta… — Dobriša Cesarić Copy Share Image
“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language...… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“I bought plum blossoms more for the name than for the color; I buy lipstick that way, too. In other words, if… — Dorothea Grossman Copy Share Image
Why wait for someone when you have a gut feeling they are not gonna wait for you? why hold on to something… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. And you teach your sons and… — Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. — Louis Dudek 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
“My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“if the rain you left behind for me to deal with taught me anything in this life, it would be that after… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business,… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
“Many Castles On My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the… — Silent Lotus Copy Share Image
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
