“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You were moon's eye to me pull and grained and mantling' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew” — Charlotte Mew Copy Share Image
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“I wrote you this poem because i was afraid/ To come out and tell you i want to get laid.” — Jake Wizner Copy Share Image
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know I've learned from falling, from placing the brighter side of my hands against the earth and pressing… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered places Where crowds have been:. All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Sex with an ex Is it ever really painless or just inviting stress? I mean, really Who does that? Oh wait, I’m… — Natasha Ramsey Copy Share Image
“My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; A-chasing the wild-deer, and… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
As our thoughts are governed by that of the earth, our spirit does nothing but suffer, hearts hidden in death and deceit.… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
“I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh, and you cannot help but want me. You think it's… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail, And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale: 'Time is short, life is… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Heart; I named my lass sweetly; She danced to the mundane tunes of daftness; By nature she was midsummer madness; Or rather… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“Life is a poem It doesn't give us everything. Just some things. Two sturdy branches. A basket of dawns. If we stitch… — Jarod K. Anderson Copy Share Image
When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name" You can’t say it that way any more. Bothered about beauty you have to Come… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
“Do I, then, belong to the heavens? Why, if not so, should the heavens Fix me thus with their ceaseless blue stare,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“From the bonny bells of heather, They brewed a drink long syne, Was sweeter far than honey, Was stronger far than wine.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“That's called man skills, yo. (On a student's poem about a poem)” — Peter Charles Melman Copy Share Image
