I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
“It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.” — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“I think maybe today a poem I hope after breakfast I start trying pulling it out of my own gut mostly by… — John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas Copy Share Image
“I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
“I wrote you this poem because i was afraid/ To come out and tell you i want to get laid.” — Jake Wizner Copy Share Image
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“And in a mad trance Strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings We decay Like corpses in a charnel Fear & Grief… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Take a tram ride today. Recognise a dear friend in everyone around. Speak kindly to yourself. It is only your thoughts that bring you… — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
“They’ll ask you, child, what you know of suffering. They’ll ask you where it hurts the most, when the pain changes like… — Kwame Opoku-Duku Copy Share Image
“… Fourier 's great mathematical poem ... { Referring to Joseph Fourier 's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat, one of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“Walking with my doggy is so much fun! And she makes me laugh, she makes me run. Licking she likes to make… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The Beautiful Poem" I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles? What if dragons felt… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I was writing a poem, and suddenly, I fell asleep on a page. I was dreaming of you. You were talking to… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“Do I, then, belong to the heavens? Why, if not so, should the heavens Fix me thus with their ceaseless blue stare,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“I have a fairy by my side Which says I must not sleep, When once in pain I loudly cried It said… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“From the bonny bells of heather, They brewed a drink long syne, Was sweeter far than honey, Was stronger far than wine.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Driving home from work, our white and yellow plates will clog the streets; at the checkpoints, cars will stretch far into the… — Dalia Taha Copy Share Image
