“The truth is the object of our lust But the light is still so very dim…” — Andrea Barbosa Copy Share Image
“The moon is my fear. The sun is my heart afire. The stars, my love songs.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“I wrote my first poem about a bunny. ‘Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.” — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Re examine all you have been told in school and in church Or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Each poem holds the voice of a moment. Held within, they are contained, damned to silence; released, they fly into the world… — Noa Daniels Copy Share Image
I am the greatest Conjurer in the world. When my skies are Clear, when there is Nothing left to fear, I work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“You exalt me Bati, This is the message to the society, Brightest day demands struggling, suffering and sacrifice, heroic labor would suffice.” — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
“Nobody came to see me today. Nobody saw him arrive. Nobody saw him walk away. Nobody knows he's alive.Nobody knows when he… — J. Scott Savage Copy Share Image
A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“there are stars you haven't seen and loves you haven't loved there's light you haven't felt and sunrises yet to dawn there… — Gaby Comprés Copy Share Image
“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor.” I felt my airway constrict. Damn,… — Christina Lee Copy Share Image
“. . . to my surprise I began to know what The Language was about, not just the part we were singing… — Monica Furlong Copy Share Image
If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“I saw a man swerve his car and try to hit a stray dog, but the quick mutt dodged between two parked… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“The Life is Poem, we write when we are Young, sing along all through Life, and we reap the truth when we… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“We can't find the cat, We don't know where she's at, Oh, where did she go? Does anyone know? Let's ask this… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Like young fern shoots my child's fingers curled. I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.” — Lian Hearn Copy Share Image
“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.” — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“These bones I carry were borrowed from women much stronger than I. Know that when you need them, you can borrow mine.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
