The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Everything I do you are here to give me an assurance that I will succeed. What an awesome Father you are.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“In determination of prevention, as a form of aid to human development, I will attempt to comprehend meaning.” FROM THE POEM Sketch” — Nikolay Boychev Copy Share Image
“Love left us long back, we just got better. You at pretending, Me at hiding.” — Anjum Choudhary 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
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
“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
“Ahora que no te escribo cuando me voy. Ahora que estoy más vivo de lo que estoy. Ahora que nada es urgente,… — Joaquín Sabina Copy Share Image
I want to cuddle him So hard I want to tell him How much he means to me Not just one of… — Olivia Wander Copy Share Image
“tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Life to the trees sets a pattern in the sky like lion and Goliath did in dinosaur time with the ocean gliding… — Alisha Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Instead of killing yourself wait until a year from now where you say, Holy fuck, I can't believe I was going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A Book I Can Put Down I’m halfway through and I’ve gotten used to the way it wants to be read. This… — Antonia Clark Copy Share Image
“My poem must expurgate my manhood unveil the animality of the best of my being, reveal both the monster behind the friendly… — Eddy Toussaint Copy Share Image
