Poem Quotes · Page 46

“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work…

— Happy Positivity

I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me…

— Israel Horovitz

Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory…

— Mary Oliver

“I Like The Way That when you Tilt Poems On their side They Look like Miniature Cities From A long way Away.…

— Matt Haig

“Every poem that I've created was yours. I thought they were mine, but they were yours. And I wish I could've kept…

— Juansen Dizon

“Autumn is here and I am in love. My heart has taken residence in my mind. I pick the crisp ochre leaves…

— Kamand Kojouri

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a…

— Alice Oswald

“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

“I love you." Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel…

— Ally Condie

“Very Like a Whale One thing that literature would be greatly the better for Would be a more restricted employment by authors…

— Ogden Nash

“That poem was not by me. It is among the things which quite overpower me; I have never been able to read…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Fox-Trot By the stream the fox and she-fox stood Nose to nose beneath the stars Dancing the music of the woods. The…

— Beth Kephart

“If I can’t be your love, then let me be a simple brooch so I may rest a while against your chest.…

— Kamand Kojouri

“imagine your heart is just a ball you learned to dribble up and down the length of your driveway back home. slow…

— Brionne Janae

“Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with…

— Kamand Kojouri

Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and…

— Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint,…

— Sybil Marshall

“ I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t…

— June Jordan

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of…

— James Merrill

“We, the people of 21st century, get into the cars first and then decide where to go But that's okay because we…

— Mallika Chawla

“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

“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

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a…

— Robert Frost

“Thee, my serenity, one can not bear, Seeing thee befuddled, bereaved, Dimmed like the midnight, secluded, darkened, Thee, my serenity, A window…

— Hamidreza Bagheri

A poem is like a person. The more you know someone, the more you realize there is always something more to know…

— Matthew Zapruder

To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope…

— Rita Dove

“After you left I stared at the driveway Feeling its emptiness Wondering if you’d return. After you left I thought about your…

— Tamara Ireland Stone

“Are there flowers here, your ladyship?' he asked when Pole had gone. 'Flowers?' Lucretia touched a hand to her cheek. 'Surely you…

— Lawrence Norfolk

Love¦.. a term constantly over used. Her heart is a power system hope her boyfriend doesnt blow a fuse. These people leave…

— Curly Girl

“True story This morning I jumped on my horse And went for a ride, And some wild outlaws chased me And shot…

— Shel Silverstein

“The Gauze of Flowers, A Love Poem” Remember when we couldn’t name it because it was a meadow wild with tulips, both…

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“You want to know, companions of my youth, How much has changed the wild but shy young poet Forever writing last poem…

— Emmanuel Lacaba

“A foolish man question: “what is love?” A madman answer: “Love is an omnipresent attribute of human life. Our appetite will always…

— Santosh Kalwar

“...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. ...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines. ...and of lust. ...to what seems…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

It really gets on my goat that people keep quoting Dorothea Mackellar's 'My Country' as proof that there is no such thing…

— Judy Horacek

“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your…

— John Green

“I am a forward-looking girl and don't stay where I am. "Left right, Be bright," as I said in my poem. That's…

— Stevie Smith

A poem I wrote: I was just that little girl, who was in the park on day, I was just that little…

— Akila Sultana

I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write.…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine.…

— E.E. Cummings