“Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“I do not fear the night When I know that today I am bathed in a light It cannot be stolen away” — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
“The editor wants something a little more oblique, a little less opaque. Let the reader watch you / dissolve.” — Aaron Kent Copy Share Image
“Am I still a hero if the only person I save is myself? Am I still a villain if the only person… — B. Damani Copy Share Image
“I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“There's a reason they didn't keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Don't let a king or a prince or a fairytale tell you you are smaller than that or who you are meant… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“What if the poem loses? What if it never tastes victory like the intent it was written with?” — Akif Kichloo Copy Share Image
“This is how the past interrupts our lives, all of it entering the same doorway--like the hole in the trunk of my… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“Release- For years they told you to sit. Stay. Now they open the door and tell you to get up. Leave. Where… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“I’ve only written one decent poem in my life called “Lizard up My Leg”: A lizard up my leg gave me a… — Danny Rubin Copy Share Image
Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“Her touch is like doing simple math When she sleeps in the bed, subtracting clothes There is a red ink, like a… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Silly little monster” all would say. They’d scratch its head and turn away until it snatched their tiny noses. They couldn’t even… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I’ve reached the vanishing point without you. Here my heartache begins with your pain trying to find an unborn start in this… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“As a perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
I think tension between the intimate and the vast is at the heart of every poem by any poet, though of course… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Do not worry about your contradictions - Persephone is both floral maiden and queen of death. You, too, can be both.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t scared to walk away, she was scared he wouldn’t follow.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“ Lemon balm soothe all troublesome care reviveth the heart and ward off despair. ” — Virginia Hartman Copy Share Image
“What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?” — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so. from the prose poem… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all. — Walter Bargen Copy Share Image
From my poem, these are the words I choose. They describe me, and everything I've been through. — Leslie Copy Share Image
“I love your round head, the brilliant green, the watching blue, these letters, this world, you. I am very, very hungry.” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“So this is love: the Sculptor’s chisel. And stone, which in its whole life does not utter a single word, suddenly sings.” — Milan Rúfus Copy Share Image
“I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.” — Jenim Dibie Copy Share Image
All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
![“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized its potential to touch others in their innermost being, what [Kathleen] Fraser has termed their "yearning side," it could be a profoundly communal act. Poetry…” quote by Kathleen Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aee/kathleen-norris-7283_discipline_poetry-was-a-discipline-grounded-in-expe_449388.jpg)
