Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“In school, I hated poetry - those skinny, Malnourished poems that professors love; The bad grammar and dirty words that catch In… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
“The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
When are we going to be together? Will you love me now or will it take forever? I Love you always with… — Archie Copy Share Image
“ENTER THIS DESERTED HOUSE But please walk softly as you do. Frogs dwell here and crickets too. Ain't no ceiling, only blue… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Now I become myself. It's taken Time, may years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“i am really colored & really sad sometimes & you hurt me more than i ever danced outta/ i am ready to… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
“REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESS Before you were born, And were still too tiny for The human eye to see, You won the race… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I listened long to your story, Listened but could not hear. When you chose to walk that path so overgrown, I remained… — Anne Elisabeth Stengl Copy Share Image
“Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey, Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“I don't see any hint of you missing me, It's time to put sense in this misery I love you too much,… — Miss Rainbow Moonfire Copy Share Image
You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“The longer a life, the challenge is not the distance between destinations, but the difficulty of travelling light. My soul’s a portmanteau… — Jamie A. Hughes Copy Share Image
“It takes an aeon to shift position, get comfortable, let alone create a wave in this fishbowl full of glue. - from… — Toby Fitch Copy Share Image
My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
“from the poem Hum, Hum The resurrection of the morning. The mystery of the night. The hummingbird's wings. The excitement of thunder.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely… — Velvetoscar Copy Share Image
“In this forest called life, sometimes there are no goodbyes, no proper sendoffs, no wishing for a next time; just the knowledge… — A.Y. Greyson Copy Share Image
I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as… — Adelia Prado Copy Share Image
If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear,… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the night the beloved body, compass, polestar, to hear the quiet breathing that says I am… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“you cross me at your peril, I swallow light when the warm of anger lashes me into a spin, the pine trees… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well,… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a poem, it’s a 3 am conversation on your basement couch and a quiet night spent on the bench next… — Christopher Korenczuk Copy Share Image
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“A poem begins as I look into your eyes, as I kiss your lips, as I grasp your hair, a sense of… — Alejandro Perez Copy Share Image
