What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem -… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“The monsters were never under my bed. Because the monsters were inside my head. I fear no monsters, for no monsters I… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“When thinking is overrated And friends are easy to make, Check if it's too complicated Knowing yourself somehow... Inner peace's not hard… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“I'm working on a poem about heartbreak that I've been working on forever (give or take). The problem is that I've never… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“I am a lantern, I glow bright I break for day, and wait for night Without me you’d be blind You take… — Carlos Hutchinson Copy Share Image
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I know you can't wash in the same river even once I know the river will bring new lights that you will… — Nazım Hikmet Copy Share Image
“You know that thing You do so well, That little spark You hide In the dark, That you think Nobody Knows About… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Because I'm a younger laureate, it seemed important to me to do something - not to just accept the honor of the… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“I’m a picture without a frame. A poem without a rhyme. A car with three wheels. A sun without fire. I am… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
You say you love me, then you leave. Now I'm here, begging please. You try to say you meant well, but now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the waves hit the shores over and over, rolling and roaring, to the immature eyes it seems like a fight or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I tried to write you a poem today, but I had writer's block… so this all I came up with : roses… — Valeri Hernandez Copy Share Image
The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast it can illuminate the nights. With the glow of an… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“You are the remedy of intensity i need in my life, to spin me out of the miserable monotony of working on… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
My favorite kind of day, is a rainy; cloudy kind of day. I wish rain would fall everyday, as I lie down… — Kasey Clark Copy Share Image
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion, let me relive my Love’s memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“With a metal heart I came to this life, My head was a crucible, full of elixir. Pearl by pearl My heart… — Hersh Saeed Copy Share Image
I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“But the thing is that I can hear Sam and Craig having sex, and for the first time in my life, I… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
