“Why does the wrong feel so good? So tempting, so alluring So inciting, so sinful” — Pierce Smith Copy Share Image
“Let us remember to always rediscover one another because we are forever changing.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours” — Hasil Paudyal Copy Share Image
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Through the darkest hours of the night and through the dreamers realm I seek, Far beyond the starry sky and beyond galaxies… — Lee Argus Copy Share Image
“…[O]n a poem of a bridge I contemplate the boundless silence of a slender girl our ills flow together and how, borne… — Giuseppe Ungaretti Copy Share Image
The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The unspoken hurts. From everyone hidden corner it lurks. Seeking out its pray. We all want to run away. In the end… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry for me is very easy. It's like a lightning bolt. I feel this calling, and the first line of the poem… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
“The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am a shadow. I walk the wet roads under the dim light of the pale lamps, in the darkest hour of… — Foaad Ahmad Copy Share Image
“POOR ANGUS Oh what do you do, poor Angus, When hunger makes you cry? "I fix myself an omelet, sir, Of fluffy… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“You sit at the edge of the world, I am in a crater that's no more. Words without letters Standing in the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“This creative tension between wonderful and terrible is named so well by Gerard Manley Hopkins, as only poets can. Even the long… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
“John Burroughs beautifully expresses this in his poem “Waiting”: Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows The West Wind goes walking, and about the walls it goes.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“ She has the look of one who seeks some greater and destroying passion: ” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.” — Jen Currin Copy Share Image
“All that I desire in life are three... A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea, A puff of opium, And thee.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“His relentless lust Failed to accept the demands of love, He got back his senses And responded to her But, just too… — Jyoti Patel Copy Share Image
“If you are a dreamer, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax-golden tales to spin; come in! Come in!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Things are always terrible for some people. The question is the ratio of the palpable hurt to the general session of life… — Maureen N. McLane Copy Share Image
“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Three birds sit on a wire One bird poops Three birds shit on a wire” — Eric Mancini Copy Share Image
“Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.” — Neel Preet Copy Share Image
“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. — Douglas Dunn Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.” — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
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