“It is essential that we always repeat: we the people, we the people, we the people.” — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“this is where the poets will interject / they will say: show, dont tell / but that assumes most people can see” — Marwa Helal Copy Share Image
“Go for it because for all those moments that you would make up your mind the other might have already rushed for… — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I don't want to heal you. I want to love you until your scars merge with the love bites on your skin.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy” — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Sprawled out on the front lawn/ looking up at an ordinary sky/ it could fall on me and some how be/ the… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
“The longer a life, the challenge is not the distance between destinations, but the difficulty of travelling light. My soul’s a portmanteau… — Jamie A. Hughes Copy Share Image
Twitter was like a poem. It was rich, real and spontaneous. It really fit my style. In a year and a half,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“It takes an aeon to shift position, get comfortable, let alone create a wave in this fishbowl full of glue. - from… — Toby Fitch Copy Share Image
My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“I don't see any hint of you missing me, It's time to put sense in this misery I love you too much,… — Miss Rainbow Moonfire Copy Share Image
“In this forest called life, sometimes there are no goodbyes, no proper sendoffs, no wishing for a next time; just the knowledge… — A.Y. Greyson Copy Share Image
“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely… — Velvetoscar Copy Share Image
“A poem is a windy city, has broad shoulders and insistent industry, barrels into your brain, sticking its steam-filled, swarmy head into… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem… — Iain Dowie Copy Share Image
“to know a country takes all we know of love: some days better than others, but never easy to keep our promise… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
“I often repeat repeat myself, I often repeat repeat. I don't don't know why know why, I simply know that I I… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“Torn The internet’s all show, no actual cunnilingus has transpired between us. This has been smoke signals from eye to eye. And… — Bob Hicok Copy Share Image
“this is not a Quote it's a poem. "A Thousand Kisses Deep" The ponies run, the girls are young, The odds are… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Loving you is no more a beautiful memory, but now just a pain, I cry and weep every time I walk down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poem Titled {I Know the feeling} ~When life not going good and it seems all you doing is suffering and crying… ~It… — Malcolm Cleveland Copy Share Image
“The sky grows dark The Black over blue Yet the stars still dare To shine for you” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
“Now the fire rises and offers a dozen, singing, deep-red roses of flame.” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“At last the bottom fell out. No more water in the pail. No more moon in the water.” — as the character Wendy John Gould in the short story Copy Share Image
I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“I think there is something broken in our generation, there are so many sad eyes on happy faces.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“It sometime takes a long time and a hard time to realize he just doesn’t deserve your you.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it-- — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“The poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
'Aurat' is an iconic poem which is relevant 70 years later and informs me in the work I do with women. — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together. — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
“I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
“I wrote you this poem because i was afraid/ To come out and tell you i want to get laid.” — Jake Wizner Copy Share Image
