Poems Quotes · Page 10

I prefer always to think that I am creating a book, not a series of stand-alone poems.

— Martha Ronk

“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters”

— Tony Hoagland

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

— Joseph Brodsky

“She was another broken doll dreaming of a boy with glue. ”

— Atticus Poetry

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

— Mark Strand

“depth and substance. the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poem or a person.”

— Sanober Khan

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before.

— Alice Walker

Poems are ideally suited, in some ways, to social media because they pack so much meaning into so little language.

— Michelle Dean

“The scariest thing about depression is how normal it starts to feel. How silence becomes your native language. How disappearing starts to…

— Chloe Holland Dicks

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read…

— Helen Vendler

“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove…

— Anonymous

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when…

— Natasha Trethewey

“She was broken. And i know,her heart can be repaired again. not by the "roses" and "chocolates" But by the "truths" and…

— seerat ahuja

“Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I…

— Leslie Austin

“Those letters under the door A new life The war at a distance and my drinking glass that smokes A brightness crowns…

— Paul Dermée

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing…

— Natasha Trethewey

Honeydew dreams are needful things at which we both attest; palsied serine eyes gazing pleasantly surprised with soft and panting breath. flowers…

— Johnny Luckett

“this then will be my destiny: scrabbling for pennies in dark tiny halls reading poems I have long since become tired of.…

— Charles Bukowski

“I dream of a world tuned to harmony instead of noise. A world where peace is a rhythm in the streets, intelligence…

— Gary Tolan aka King Tolan

“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness…

— robert m drake

I think that the moment we're living in offers the best opportunity we've had in a long time in that a lot…

— Shane McCrae

“Silence explains a lot of things. It tells us why people are who they not supposed to be. It's the fear of…

— Tessa Vanluchene

“Evening by evening Among the Brookside rushes, Laura bow'd her head to hear, Lizzie veil'd her blushes: Crouching close together In the…

— Christina Rossetti

I keep all my poems in my journals and lock them away. They are the start of everything.

— Stevie Nicks

“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”

— robert m drake

“There is a girl who still writes you; she doesn’t know how not to.”

— Sarah Kay

Having my poems set to music by Eric Moe has completely knocked my socks off.

— Matthea Harvey

“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?”

— Dejan Stojanovic

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.”

— robert m drake

“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces…”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

“We are all born free and spend a lifetime becoming slaves to our own false truths.”

— Atticus Poetry

“I worry there is something broken in our generation, there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.”

— Atticus Poetry

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...”

— Maquita Donyel Irvin

“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.”

— robert m drake

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

— Mary Oliver

“When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!”

— Jane Austen

“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.”

— Melody Lee