A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“Stay beautiful because the world is beautiful, So is the universe!” — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“I have a desperate desire to put a ring on your finger. For there's nothing sexier than kissing a glistering hand in… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“Monsieur, you must be mad! Box Five can never be had For money, love or the world ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be… — Alysia Harris Copy Share Image
Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“be the kiss in my hair that no one sees move, when i move sigh, when i sigh... be that line from… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other ("Poem")” — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as… — Adelia Prado Copy Share Image
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Every poem that I've created was yours. I thought they were mine, but they were yours. And I wish I could've kept… — Juansen Dizon Copy Share Image
“Autumn is here and I am in love. My heart has taken residence in my mind. I pick the crisp ochre leaves… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I Like The Way That when you Tilt Poems On their side They Look like Miniature Cities From A long way Away.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“This is for you, all the women of the world Those who lived, all who ever will this is for your love,… — Trevor McShane Copy Share Image
“Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Once on yellow sheet of paper with green lines, he wrote a poem and he called it “Spot” because that was the… — Earl Reum Copy Share Image
“A rural Venus, Selah rises from the gold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweeps petals of water from her skin. At once,… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
“Look into words for the tomb of space where beauties & stones & eternities untangle. (...) In them is the flood which… — MTC Cronin Copy Share Image
I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Athena's jealousy made a monster of fair Medusa. I often wonder what beauty my own demons have destroyed.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“I found the best thing I could do was just to type away at my own work and let the dying die… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“Music helps to forget This forsaken tomb, That is my abode Cellars down Far below Under the ground, ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds. — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. --from "Poem For A Birthday - The Stones", written 1959” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
