“She fondled, cradled, pacified and hushed the wounded heart to slumber by constantly saying, It’s over. He’s not coming back.” — Ruqayya Shaheed Khan Copy Share Image
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.” — Kiana Donae Copy Share Image
Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it. — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“I am that I am a Goddess, a God entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations offered by Heaven and Earth… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“she has craters but only a fool can deny her beauty. She silently stare sun whole night & reflects his light his… — Lokesh Fouzdar Copy Share Image
If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and… — Karla Kuskin Copy Share Image
“I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, "that guy's nuts." out on the street… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“...my body has become another country and I feel like an unemployed illegal alien how will I survive where I do not… — Patrick Califia-Rice Copy Share Image
“A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“A Poem: You, with your way of innocence, would have been hurt; thinking I run from you; that I despise you, but… — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
“ LIFE ON ITS EDGE' 'What the title reflects? It says about life's edge' 'Edge, where life has nothing, nothing to achieve.… — Samar Sudha Copy Share Image
“Be the man who has the spirit of a ruthless tiger, ravaging every dusty corner of my soul. Be the man for… — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Soul Mate When we are born, the soul we are given is split apart and half of it is given to someone… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“What great gravity is this that drew my soul towards yours? What great force, that though I went falsely, went kicking, went… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Caleb dumped me on my birthday, Before I’d ordered an entrée, “What a dick!” some might say! But don’t you worry my… — J.C. McClean Copy Share Image
“I saw it, the first time I looked in her eyes. The language that lived within her. It was a language that… — Andrea Michelle Copy Share Image
