“Sickness awakens sadness sleeps- Moments of aloneness results into peace.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Will I be less dead because I wrote this poem or you more because you read it long years hence.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.” — Robert Wells Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable. — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“They tell me to be quiet When I’d rather cause a riot And have everyone screaming Out their eccentric meaning.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a poem, it’s a 3 am conversation on your basement couch and a quiet night spent on the bench next… — Christopher Korenczuk Copy Share Image
“A poem begins as I look into your eyes, as I kiss your lips, as I grasp your hair, a sense of… — Alejandro Perez Copy Share Image
“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
“I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“What is this love that makes me see beauty, and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me? What is this… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Winter Forest Deep words and lighter steps Tear to white and fading green Of lines and morning woods; Each step of us grows lighter, While… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“Poem Written in a Copy of Beowulf At various times, I have asked myself what reasons moved me to study, while my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“How can you be so optimistic about the whole damn world but not about yourself?” “My magic, you mean.” “Your neck, Pen.”… — Ellen Connor Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I have to find a place to hide An island in the sea Surrounded by a racing tide Where I can live… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Choice- Judgement. Black coffee acid on an empty stomach. Perception. Cool, clear water.” — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Brahma and Airavata Long ago in lands of golden sand Brahma turned to Saraswati and gently kissed her inked hand…” — Muse Copy Share Image
A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I am most spectacular in convalescence / of the night sky / when I break the shell / in search of silence… — Aaron Kent Copy Share Image
“when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“Pity that child who was born near Rouen, His only crime, to arrive deformed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“I hope reading my vulnerable thoughts will help you move forward with your journey. A new start. My darling, just let it… — Angela Colleen Prendergast Copy Share Image
“Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody has held me and no hands have strayed and even though I'm drunk with love, my… — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
