“Choose a poem that speaks to you. Choose a poem that will help you speak to someone else.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem about you online. It's called "El Puto” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Lord, let me write, leave me autistic and typing until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves and I know the… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
“Dismantle the sun, pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods: For nothing now can ever come to any good…” The… — Lori Ryan Copy Share Image
For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit. — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.” — Odo Simon Agbo Copy Share Image
“The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales': Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“and I can still write a poem (sometimes), don’t forget that, and even if they don’t pay off, it’s better than waiting… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A flower may die, the sun may set,but a friend like you ill never forget, your name is precious, it will never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Working alone on a poem, a poet is of all artists the most free. The poem can be written with a modicum… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“La Nebuleuse is a poem of lovely & deep perspective, where, symboloized by artless beings, are seen the successive generations of men… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“A Poem for a Trick Roses are red, Violets are blue Dumb ass nigguh I was never in love with U I… — Pamela M Johnson Copy Share Image
“You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The question of what kind of a thing a text or poem is now becomes a function neither of what the poet… — Jennifer Ashton Copy Share Image
I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“It's a poem, for crying out loud! The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at… — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... — John Berger Copy Share Image
A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“God doesn't listen to me too, but people have their suspicions. सुनता तो रब हमारी भी नहीं, पर लोगों को अल्लाह पे शक बेशक है” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“That year, we knew the sky existed because we believed in the storm, but we never saw the sky.” — Jorge Galán Copy Share Image
“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.” — Drew Myron Copy Share Image
“The recommended retirement plan is arabesque, then leap and smash on the seawall.” — Natalie Shapero Copy Share Image
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
As hurried as this poem is rest assured that our loves not. To be with you, again, forever I cant wait until… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Death stoops over me. I'm a problem in chess. He has the solution.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
“she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“(Poem on anorexic): The only way to escape the history of styles is not to have a body.” — Frank Bidart Copy Share Image
“We did not know she was sick, but she has come to the fence, walking like a woman who is balancing a… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The Nuremberg judges added illegal hanging atrocities to violent Hitlerian racist ferocities.” — Saiom Shriver Copy Share Image
