We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“«¡No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon” — Francis William Bourdillon Copy Share Image
“There’s a poem about onions,” she said. “It’s about how memory is like an onion—it makes you cry.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Tiho, o tiho govori mi jesen; Šuštanjem lišća i šapatom kiše. Al zima srcu govori još tiše. I kada sniježi, a spušta… — Dobriša Cesarić Copy Share Image
“Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“if the rain you left behind for me to deal with taught me anything in this life, it would be that after… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
“My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak,… — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
See those tears gathered in my eyes those are the tears I refuse to cry, although I see right through ur lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For me, you are fresh water that falls from trees when it has stopped raining. For me, you are cinnamon that lingers… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand by the window looking out at moonstruck trees a December storm has bowed with ice.… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
“The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“THE POEMS OF OUR CLIMATE I Clear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The light In the room more… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“Beauty walks this world. It ages everything. I am far and I am an animal and I am just another I-am poem,… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
“what if you get most of what the eye sees? what if love came in seeds? what if we plant them and… — Youns Hussein Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot writes in his poem “East Coker”: “Old men ought to be explorers.” — Guideposts Copy Share Image
“I love you, Mom. ___I love you more. I love you to the moon! ___I love you to my core.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Alkohol ubija... znamo, o znamo, Znamo da alkohol škodi, No rakije, rakije, rakije amo, Jer utjehe nema u vodi.” — Dobriša Cesarić Copy Share Image
“So old were you, Grammpa— the last time I saw you, anaemic You looked like the monsoon in my town.” — Abhijit Sarmah Copy Share Image
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“It’s been hard to believe in love again, but faith is at the center of every request.” — David Campos Copy Share Image
There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. — Charles Angoff Copy Share Image
A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Love left us long back, we just got better. You at pretending, Me at hiding.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
“Everything I do you are here to give me an assurance that I will succeed. What an awesome Father you are.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
