“How to Write a Poem Catch the air around the butterfly.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“Mini cat poem for ISF kids: William went high Into the air Furly had stepped On the edge of The board” — Debby Feo Copy Share Image
The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“The amazing feeling that triggers the fountain of words that flow in my belly.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“I am that I am a Goddess, a God entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations offered by Heaven and Earth… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your… — John Green Copy Share Image
“No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Belief In Self If you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might… — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
“A day will come when men will discover an alphabet in the eyes of chalcedonies, in the markings of the moth, and… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“Fat Charlie blew his nose. "I never knew I had a brother," he said. "I did," said Spider. "I always meant to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“There was a girl named Claire. For her, life was lonely, it was so unfair. She longed for happiness, but found it… — Shon Mehta Copy Share Image
“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
When Cynthia smiles, said young Bingo, the skies are blue; the world takes on a roseate hue; birds in the garden trill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
This isnt a quote more or less a poem... My legs are too heavy to run tonight We both know were lonely… — Jose Ruiz Copy Share Image
“A vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
