A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The first time I ever got up on a stage, I did a comedy poem. I don't know how I got there… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
“I don't see any hint of you missing me, It's time to put sense in this misery I love you too much,… — Miss Rainbow Moonfire Copy Share Image
You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
“if the rain you left behind for me to deal with taught me anything in this life, it would be that after… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
“My life is filled with buckets of tears; thousands of people shouting in my ears; the humming and chirping of hundreds of… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“I remember the morning you walked back from the sea, dirty trousers rolled, your feet pale as prisoners, poems and broken shells… — Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“This wobbly world host to insects and lint and a thousand pithy ways to feel unserious each minute It brings about a… — Erin J. Watson Copy Share Image
“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“My friend Debbie from Texas sent me a poem to cheer me up. Her father told her that a friend of his… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Your life is full of shit, No one takes care of you not by a bit. Finally go and open your eyes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the… — Charles Wolfe Copy Share Image
“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human,… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
See those tears gathered in my eyes those are the tears I refuse to cry, although I see right through ur lies… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak,… — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
“Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Many Castles On My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the… — Silent Lotus Copy Share Image
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business,… — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
“I Like The Way That when you Tilt Poems On their side They Look like Miniature Cities From A long way Away.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Autumn is here and I am in love. My heart has taken residence in my mind. I pick the crisp ochre leaves… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Every poem that I've created was yours. I thought they were mine, but they were yours. And I wish I could've kept… — Juansen Dizon Copy Share Image
That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“A poem begins as I look into your eyes, as I kiss your lips, as I grasp your hair, a sense of… — Alejandro Perez Copy Share Image
“Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a poem, it’s a 3 am conversation on your basement couch and a quiet night spent on the bench next… — Christopher Korenczuk Copy Share Image
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
“Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“ I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
