The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“I think maybe today a poem I hope after breakfast I start trying pulling it out of my own gut mostly by… — John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas Copy Share Image
“A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.” — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me, and I wonder why I ever… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“from the poem Hum, Hum The resurrection of the morning. The mystery of the night. The hummingbird's wings. The excitement of thunder.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“you cross me at your peril, I swallow light when the warm of anger lashes me into a spin, the pine trees… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well,… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Doesn’t everyone want to feel in the night the beloved body, compass, polestar, to hear the quiet breathing that says I am… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear,… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“When does real love begin? At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits, lightning and fireworks; the incense, hammocks, drugs, wines,… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“A poem's what you think it is,' Arunava said and laughed. He held up his empty glass and said, 'Now that is… — Bhaskar Ghose Copy Share Image
“How Beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“This poem is very long So long, in fact, that your attention span May be stretched to its very limits But that’s… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
“The bad news is your flaws don’t come from nowhere. The world is deeply fucked from every angle; its damage is incomprehensibly… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“You can Lose a child Or a parent, The love of your life, A good job, A game, A deal, A bet,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“And the pebbles fight each other as rocks/And my father bends among them/Two hands outstretching up to me/Not that I can hear.” — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
“The U.K. should begin with an F And have a C after the U, And it should end in E D Now… — Harry Whitewolf Copy Share Image
“I allowed him to curse at me aloud My sorrows swelled bigger in size so did my sighs… From the poem- FROM… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.” — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
“My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me,… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“the flames are silent, Peace is violent, Tears are frozen ’cause massacre was chosen. ~~ 26/11– Mumbai terror attack memories” — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
“I am not perfect for you, but I will always imperfectly try to be.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf. — Aja Monet Copy Share Image
“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation.” — Kelly Vang Copy Share Image
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
