The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“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
“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 don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“The rainbow across the sky after a storm confirms Your kindness and Your forgiving heart.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem appeals to me technically, just because of the way a line feels on my lips. Sometimes it is because… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
“THREE BASIC TRUTHS Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless. Three… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then,… — Cristen Rodgers 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
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
“Cruel, Clever Cat. Sally, having swallowed cheese, Directs down holes the scented breeze, Enticing thus with baited breath Nice mice to an… — Geoffrey Taylor Copy Share Image
“We get tired by trying way too hard, To get something we probably not look at, The devil distracts us with the… — Ritu Negi 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
“At real stripper bars women just dance—so many things they could be checking off their lists. I guess men don’t want to… — Jill McDonough Copy Share Image
“ With whom do you believe your lot is cast? From where does your strength come? I think somehow, somewhere every poem… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of… — John Green Copy Share Image
The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Sunflowers, Not Facing the Sun (A Poem) I stand tall As gracious as one could be Blooming to my best As slender… — Annie Ali Copy Share Image
