“The rainbow across the sky after a storm confirms Your kindness and Your forgiving heart.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot… — Goldie Nanwani Copy Share Image
“The amazing feeling that triggers the fountain of words that flow in my belly.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“When I was young and miserable and pretty And poor, I'd wish What all girls wish: to have a husband, A house… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
For every half, there is a whole. For every hand, there's one to hold. For every poem, there is a meaning. And… — Murali Iyengar Copy Share Image
“And when next I feel the dawn’s light, I open my hand and set the butterfly free, Knowing she does not appear… — Natalie Miller Copy Share Image
“That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass by… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“«Like a fossil tree From which we gather no flowers Sad has been my life Fated no fruit to produce.» Death poem… — Stephen Turnbull Copy Share Image
“You fell because you were looking to fall, You fell because you’re kind. Your humans called you Daydreamer girl, but you fell… — F.K. Preston Copy Share Image
“Let's Be Clear To be born in the ghetto doesn't make me The most monstrous creature in the world, To be born… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“When daylight is here i dream of the night, The stars of a country sky that shine so bright. A night sky… — J.M. Pierce Copy Share Image
“Season's Greetings by Stewart Stafford Season's Greetings To those we are needing, While I am leading The Festive charge. Christmas love is… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Janitorial" All morning he drifts the spacious lawns like a gleaner, picking up this and that, the summer clouds immense and building… — George Bilgere Copy Share Image
“Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
“… and that’s why they leave, isn’t it? Because they have to see themselves in the context of something larger than just… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
