A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
“Maybe you think life is not worth living, but is death worth dying for?” — Cesar Nascimento Copy Share Image
“I am offering the only thing I have. I am holding out my hand, feeding myself to the hungry future.” — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand? — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“In school, I hated poetry - those skinny, Malnourished poems that professors love; The bad grammar and dirty words that catch In… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Just wanted to know how you're feeling, As I sit here and think of your progress, It takes a lot of time,… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
You are my world You are my joy You are my life You are my everything The moment I laid eyes on… — Jessica Guillium Copy Share Image
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The Last Leaf I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“Prefatory Poem All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“With each kiss that we shared we experienced the meaning of love. With the passing glances of passion we surrendered our hearts… — Anthony F. Rando Copy Share Image
The mind is the great poem ofwinter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and ice… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“I've discovered a way to stay friends forever - There's really nothing to it. I simply tell you what to do And… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.” — Jack McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Doubt is unacceptable and should not enter you; it is merely evil trying to divert you and increase the difficulty of your… — William O'Brien Copy Share Image
“i am simply the poet. the poem is the one that can change your life. – medium” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.” — Jewelle Gomez Copy Share Image
Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won’t. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“ Smile. Steel it. Keep steeling it. Laugh. Trill it. Keep trilling it. Love. Feel it. Keep feeling it.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Why this candle? Why this cake? The day of my birth is not today. I was born when you said, 'Hey.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Four simple chambers. A thousand complicated doors. One of them is yours.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“We both knew something wasn't quite right, but we clung on, used each other like cigarettes: casual, habitual, slow death. Why?” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
