“Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as… — David Patterson Copy Share Image
“I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name, and I found one with a lifeguard’s chair, a broken shell,… — Michael Broder Copy Share Image
“For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
“Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing To be so open: it is as if my heart Put on a face and walked into… — Renee Baron Copy Share Image
“We plant seeds in the ground And dreams in the sky, Hoping that, someday, the roots of one Will meet the upstretched… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“And now we who are writing women and strange monsters Still search our hearts to find the difficult answers, Still hope that… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Gargoyles sat on the battlements- lean they were and the same hideous damp grey as the stone. They looked at her with… — Meredith Ann Pierce Copy Share Image
“Pariah Luggage by Stewart Stafford I am the last piece of luggage, On the baggage carousel, If there's a suitcase deity, It… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Today's enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies. What you reject today, you could accept tomorrow.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Sour Milk You can't make it turn sweet again. Once it was an innocent color like the flowers of wild strawberries, and… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be… — Noor Hindi Copy Share Image
“You once told me You wanted to find Yourself in the world - And I told you to First apply within, To… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In this dark corner there is nothing but silence. The truth is in the air and puddles are being made. Confused, scared.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "in"… — Portia Nelson Copy Share Image
“Cause I can love a poem up out of you-like my middle name is Harlem..and my fingerprints are permanent-you ain't gone wash… — Shanica Stewart 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
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
“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
“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
“Give me one more night to taste the dark When wolves imitate a lone dog's bark Let those secrets remain unspoken Fallen… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How… — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi 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
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