“Anyone who has lived Is an historian & an artifact, For they hold all their time within them.” — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
Unfinished Poem I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“This separation happened for a reason, this esason is for our own good; God is just positioning us.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“With a ring around the rosary And a pocket full of crosses Ashes to ashes They'll all fall down” — Matthew Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“When I feel lonely you are here beside me with your loving and caring touch.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“You were sunrise to me rise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew” — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. And you teach your sons and… — Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to… — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language...… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“I bought plum blossoms more for the name than for the color; I buy lipstick that way, too. In other words, if… — Dorothea Grossman Copy Share Image
“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“How could I forget. I was her ghost daughter, sitting at empty tables with crayons and pens while she worked on a… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“WITHOUT END There is no final poem, just as there was no original poem, and if there was a tree that held… — Vievee Francis Copy Share Image
“Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines he wrote a poem And he called it "Chops" because that was… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“THE ONE WHO STAYED You should have heard the old men cry, You should have heard the biddies When that sad stranger… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
My demons seem to be my closest friends, the were here in the start, and promise they'll still be in the end,… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
“Let’s appreciate and welcome the arrival of a new prophet The one who can be Reasonable and rational Realistic and democrat The… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“…what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Sipping tea with glee beneath a gooseberry tree. I wish Alice were here. Oh, my dear, do not fear, she will be.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A poem is a spider web Spun with words of wonder, Woven lace held in place By whispers made of thunder. — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
Some days are sunny and some are cloudy But you don't need to show your mood. Because you mood effects everyone not… — Me And Kaden Copy Share Image
“A poem is a skeletal shape. When I say it to you, I am dropping the empty shell of a crab into… — Jeffrey L. Hollman Copy Share Image
“Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of… — Emma Ghent Curtis Copy Share Image
I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go. — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
“life has me holding a grudge pouring coffee on my recollections not revealing where the moon finds its water” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! How more horrible that that Is the curse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. — J. D. McClatchy Copy Share Image
“Life's like us We find it- and then the death A poem for a goodbye? Why insist?” — Daie-Soko Copy Share Image
“The enemy came to steel,destroy and kill our leader, our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
