“The enemy came to steal,kill and destroy our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“… Bless their believing happiness will make them happy; that the ocean is magical, a kingdom where we go to be human,… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something. — James Tate Copy Share Image
A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“Unable and crippled I am As I gaze into the vastness The vastness that harbors your praise And glories of the best… — Anila Aboo Copy Share Image
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, I marvel at the wonder of how graceful words seem to appear pen to paper; in others' hands And I think… — Joy Chua Copy Share Image
“These words are my mother’s, my father’s, my brother’s, my lender’s, my garbage man’s—the poem runs like oil on fire beneath this… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“That Little Beast That pretty little beast, a poem, has a mind of its own. Sometimes I want it to crave apples… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“SPRING POEM It is spring, my decision, the earth ferments like rising bread or refuse, we are burning last year's weeds, the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
“His Adam’s apple jumps up and down. “No, that’s…that’s not right. You’re not beautiful. I think you’re the most exquisite thing I’ve… — Saffron A. Kent Copy Share Image
“Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“this is actualy a poem we have been called naive as if it were a dirty word, whe have been called innocent… — Jewel Kilcher Copy Share Image
LOST in MAZE Time flies, I feel like Im losing you Like the grains of sand in my hands. The more I… — Anas Copy Share Image
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you put the words on a page and you believe in them, then it’s a poem.” — Ewuare Osayande Copy Share Image
“A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
“All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand,… — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
My poem will be always incomplete because it cannot be as beautiful as you are — Nishant Grover Copy Share Image
“She knew she was really sad when she stopped loving the things she loved.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.” — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
A poem should never be changed out of context. A poem is your heart, and thoughts. The words are your soul and… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
