“WINTER'S GHOST: Autumn moon incautious in the dark river Winter’s ghost walks with a covered face and silver bones wait in all… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“The poem begins, “About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position; how… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“...It's not that the worm forgives the plough; it gives it no mind. (Pain occurs, in passing.) (lines 37-39 in the poem… — Philip Gross Copy Share Image
“There’s only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it’s probably best not to know. It allows… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing.… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure if I can write a love poem while it’s still just a prospect pirouetting on the horizon, but when… — Simone Stolzoff Copy Share Image
“He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“I did it the hard way Many of the big dreams I dreamt, I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt. Life… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Press’d by the Moon, mute arbitress of tides, While the loud equinox its pow’r combines, The sea no more its swelling surge… — Charlotte Turner Smith Copy Share Image
“ A Faint Music by Robert Hass Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. When everything broken is broken, and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned enough to really still believe that the poem is an object to be memorized, venerated... I still believe in that… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
“After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires, There come… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I'm an old man, and I want to lay out what I think I understand. With poems like "Traitor," I'm examining my… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
“How heavy my mind is, filled with the past. Is there enough room for the world to penetrate? It must go somewhere,… — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
“from time to time, i think of him watching me from over the top of his glasses, or eating candy from a… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Five minutes ago escapes him as he chases 1934, unaware of the present beauty out the window, the banks of windswept snow—… — Anthony Walton Copy Share Image
“A weird, romantic Poem. You're either gonna do it or you're either gonna not. You're either gonna pull it or you're gonna… — Brie Edison Copy Share Image
A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them.… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
My attention span was quite short and I just wanted to use a lot of beautiful words. When I read a poem… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“I've heard you say so many a time That I know just the right words to say, just the right lines to… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“Even the simplest poem May destroy your immunity to human emotions. All poems must carry a Government warning. Words Can seriously affect… — Elma Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Walk the midway and hear the carnival barker. Come see the freak named after his deceased father. Come see the prince who… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, And if I die before I wake,… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
“A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“My heart is crushed, my knees are weakened. My tears drench my pillow, my tears flood my bed every night. Do you… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
My first poem was a bolt from the blue … it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. … it filled… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
