“Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Crying 'bout getting old—Patricia, you need to get up off what God gave you. Say a prayer and start slinging. Cue hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
“When you get to find love, make sure it's because you get to find yourself” — Nicola An Copy Share Image
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I think i should get love inked on my skin. Maybe that's the only way i am destined to keep it.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
“A voice, a tone, a feeling Deep inside, growing bigger and brighter. Shining against the dark area in my soul. Telling everyone… — Marcus J. King Copy Share Image
“Even stars are formed by loss. You know astronomers believe that galaxies are forged out of huge collapsing stars--- hollow, imploding on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are the poem, his poem says, that emerges from the unity of the body and the mind. That fragile unity--this brief… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
AND NOW FOR MY POEM!!!!!!!!!! *ahem* roses are red violets are blue sugar is sweet and so are you….. but the roses… — Amy Dang Copy Share Image
“Perfection" Every oak will lose a leaf to the wind. Every star-thistle has a thorn. Every flower has a blemish. Every wave… — R.H. Peat Copy Share Image
“The Final Poem A forge burns in my heart. I am redder than dawn, Deeper than seaweed, More distant than gulls, More… — Andrée Chedid Copy Share Image
“Mine, said the stone, mine is the hour. I crush the scissors, such is my power. Stronger than wishes, my power, alone.… — David Mason Copy Share Image
“I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: that the deity who kills for pleasure will also heal,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“ Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors Many a frozen night, and merrily Answered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“Human pigeons there the dancers Gunfighters: metal-romancers This war needs no necromancer Iron shells its spell-commencer Journalists, writers: freelancer Donate words as… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
“That's called man skills, yo. (On a student's poem about a poem)” — Peter Charles Melman Copy Share Image
