You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“Baby girl, You tried, You tried so hard, Don't you worry? You have all the right, To sleep tight at night!” — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“The way you walk is slash and burn. Like understatement's now a crime.” — Justin Quinn Copy Share Image
“terucap rindu sepasang insan.. geliat sang cinta di lubuk hati.. terurai kata nan indah menawan.. gundah pun sirna dibuai si mimpi.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Shade for a man And shelter for animals, Planted in your name, May you be the same for those around you, Every… — Nancy J. Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“My mother despises what can never truly be done so she does not care for cooking or cleaning.” — Faith Shearin Copy Share Image
I read that poem you wrote to be on our first date and I shed tears of happiness, knowing that you meant… — Josephine Copy Share Image
“It was time for me to go, to accept the dream was over and the poem exchange meant nothing; that the person… — Julie Gittus Copy Share Image
Song of Myself is a new kind of poem , which is shocked, puzzled, amused, amazed all the average readers, but it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“With a beartrap around my ankle I search the pathways of your childhood soul as sunlight sneaks above the barbershop (from the… — Reyes Cardenas Copy Share Image
“So Lightning says to Mud, “What would happen if I struck your blood?” And Mud says, “Brother, It would hurt, And make… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
Why wait for someone when you have a gut feeling they are not gonna wait for you? why hold on to something… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
“Ted: A fucking good poem is a weapon. It's-- and not like a-- a popgun or something. - It's a bomb. It's… — John Brownlow Copy Share Image
“A great poem is for ages and ages in common and for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of… — Andrea Ashworth Copy Share Image
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A Woman's Question Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing Ever made by the Hand above? A woman's heart,… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Holding up an oil-paper umbrella, I loiter aimlessly in the long, long And lonely rainy alley, I hope to encounter A lilac-like… — Dai Wangshu Copy Share Image
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
“I have put my arm down forever to interrupt the men who want more hair." from the poem "Pasadena" collected in Own… — Clark Coolidge Copy Share Image
“They find me odd, and whisper behind hands…And my brutal desires sink hooks into their lips…” — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Your thoughts were deeper than your mind, your little eyes pierced through the heart of your nation.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. — John Updike Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“just another poem's male / diagnosis dancing the corpses of womenspeaking” — Carrie Lorig Copy Share Image
Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge. — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
“The one who can draw your widest smile is also the one who can throw you to the farthest exile” — Sam Haidy Copy Share Image
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.” — Sinovuyo Nkonki Copy Share Image
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
