“Iron helmets will not save/ Even heroes from the grave/ Good man's blood will drain away/ While the wickid win the day.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“...a poem is only finished when the last reader has read it or listened to it.” — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
“When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.” — James Tate Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm sick of this poem, you probably are too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From Pine Ridge to Chiapas del barrio de La Loma a la selva Lacandona" - from the poem "Amorindio” — Raúl R. Salinas (raúlrsalinas Copy Share Image
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness. As long as there is desire, we will not be safe” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
“An unfinished poem is a half-built house, windows of air through the scaffolding.” — Jacob Oet Copy Share Image
“We, the people of 21st century, get into the cars first and then decide where to go But that's okay because we… — Mallika Chawla Copy Share Image
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint,… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
“His love for his wife and son was not beautiful—no one would ever write a poem to the passion of a man… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“ I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Bombs on my backpack lunchbox full of fivestar crackers pockets loaded with rockets im gonna spit fireworks explosive rhymes connected like judas… — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes by water 'and sometimes by the wind, 'my random lines on sand will be 'erased. What am I now? A ruddy… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“My friends often state in the midst of otherwise loving group chat missives that life is trash, though we all keep trying… — Joshua Bennett Copy Share Image
“Bulan Merah lalu ditenggak darah bulan merah lolongnya yang serigala hingga ujung benua sebayang lindap sebayang lindap melayar-layar bulan merah mengucur airmata… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You whom my body longs for, where are you? In the stars, in the river, over the rainbow? Perhaps you hide in… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose. Drinking and smoking over and… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
“from 'Incident Light Poem' And all surprisingly without outrage without gunshot without a call of timber with/out bleak rows to fall: Light… — Andrea Strudensky Copy Share Image
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
You know what I do? I listen to other people, stumbling about with their half thoughts and half sentences and their clumsy… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I fell into a restless sleep in which my dreams carried me away over misty valleys and moonlit woodlands toward a fairy… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
“He unpacks his bag of tales with fingers quick as a weaver's picking the weft threads threading the warp. Watch his fingers.… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Be there a picnic for the devil, an orgy for the satyr, and a wedding for the bride.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I remember the way love used to glow on my skin before he made his way in now every touch feels like… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“Love, they said, burns you and builds you. But with you, there’s no ash. Just light.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“There should ne’er be a time When a duty or dime Doth outshine The importance of family.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Her heart was wild, but I didn’t want to catch it, I wanted to run with it, to set me free.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“I spent all night weaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautiful when you wear my light.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
“Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you - Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance (From the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“To storm, a mind, it must be balanced, by what can't be it must be challenged...” — Will Advise Copy Share Image
