One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“In determination of prevention, as a form of aid to human development, I will attempt to comprehend meaning.” FROM THE POEM Sketch” — Nikolay Boychev Copy Share Image
“It is a two-line poem, which could be really sweet, or sour at times and it depends, totally on the way we… — Saravana Kumar Murugan Copy Share Image
I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Never have I fallen But I am quickly on my way You hold a heart in your hands That has never before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.” — Sharon Doubiago Copy Share Image
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Many Castles On My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the… — Silent Lotus Copy Share Image
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business,… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
When are we going to be together? Will you love me now or will it take forever? I Love you always with… — Archie Copy Share Image
“The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“December is... by Stewart Stafford December is all that we give, And whatever we receive, It is those who surround us, And… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“Jason stood up. "I can do this. I know I can. I think I've actually got something." "That's the spirit," said Troy.… — Alice Alfonsi Copy Share Image
“O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then what of our cries? What can… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Poem Things will go on like this for Ever. No Thing shall shatter. No Tree. No Blade of grass shall be There.… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret… — Richard Realf Copy Share Image
“At sunset, on the river ban, Krishna Loved her for the last time and left. . . That night in her husband's… — Kamala Das Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“We need each other yet, we bleed each other of the very life we are all drowning in with one another...” — The1Essence Copy Share Image
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem. — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“If the world stops spinning, slowing to a crawl. I will continue to dream of you. Until, I no longer dream at… — Jessica de la Davies Copy Share Image
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon, illuminate the shadows in the sky.” — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
“The ocean was so deep, i thought it was all just a dream but...it became reality” — KanekiBlue 503 Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“You were moon's eye to me pull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew” — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work. — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
“I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.” — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image
