You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am” — Hanif Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
“I made her go because I knew she could do better and now I wonder if I should have just been better.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“there are only so many things that you can fix with your hands. ...What they don't realize is I am not a… — Danabelle Gutierrez Copy Share Image
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well. — Jose Garcia Villa Copy Share Image
“I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem "Mad Girl's… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“kau bukan gula-gula kapas, yang bagiku cuma lembut, kau terlahir sebagai popkon, yang rangup dan manis, yang aku nikmati dalam gelap, menghadap… — Salleh Razak Copy Share Image
“Pain will humble ones soul,my pain was necessary as it humbled me beyond my limitations,I do not rush what is meant to… — Patience Kudzu Copy Share Image
A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Give me the purple smoke, rising higher and higher into my brain until I dance with the purple butterflies.” -Girl with the… — Rochelle H. Ragnarok Copy Share Image
If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“There was a girl named Claire. For her, life was lonely, it was so unfair. She longed for happiness, but found it… — Shon Mehta Copy Share Image
“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tall, and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale.” His eyes… — J.M. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam Well I have and in fact more than one and… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“I'm only leaving you for a handful of days, but it feels as though I'll be gone forever—- the way the door… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Tide with invisible strings, I'm an embroidery in fate, A mess and misunderstood, A masterpiece worth the wait.” — Ritu Negi Copy Share Image
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Death is trash. Love is a robust engagement with the trash of another.” — Joshua Bennett Copy Share Image
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“Love is always the reason to go on with life. Love is the answer to all the problems.” — Sakthivel T Copy Share Image
“Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.” — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Must always try to be out there Getting everything out there Take what is inside yourself And place it out there.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
“ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly,… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
