“Doubt is unacceptable and should not enter you; it is merely evil trying to divert you and increase the difficulty of your… — William O'Brien Copy Share Image
“And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.” — Jack McCarthy Copy Share Image
A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“ Smile. Steel it. Keep steeling it. Laugh. Trill it. Keep trilling it. Love. Feel it. Keep feeling it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.” — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Often I Wish I Were a potato. Eyes opened in all directions. Unafraid of the cold earth. The difference between life and… — Katerina Stoykova-Klemer Copy Share Image
“... And when the giant clam opened you were standing there dressed only in kelps and weeds of the ocean. And you… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Through the darkest hours of the night and through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry sky and beyond galaxies… — Lee Argus Copy Share Image
“…[O]n a poem of a bridge I contemplate the boundless silence of a slender girl our ills flow together and how, borne… — Giuseppe Ungaretti Copy Share Image
“They're both convinced that a sudden passion joined them. Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still. Since they'd never… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Like a pair of old slippers, I feel comfort and warmth as I slip into you. No, that is too crude. Like… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I,” I’ll type. And that will be enough. Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“Eight o'clock, no later, You light the lamps, The big one by the large window, The small one on your desk, They… — Mary Oliver Rotman Copy Share Image
A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Leaves will fall, cold will creep in A circle of life that ends where it begins It may take a thousand years… — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
I wish I could tell you how much I care but all I can do is sit and stare I don't know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether… — Paul Tran Copy Share Image
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