A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When it comes to love we are primates breaking sticks while pointing to our hearts.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
''Even if I die.'' ''My love for you will never say goodbye.'' ''It might hurt the pain you will feel.'' ''The broken… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Maybe one day we’ll find that place, where you and I could be together and we’ll catch our dreams within the waves… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“I arrived, I saw humans and I saw through their faces. Nothing ever changes but the light in their eyes. For I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Nails that claw by a beautiful mind. A pretty face can leave you blind - Poem 'Small Pain' from 'The B Word:… — S.C. Silver Copy Share Image
“Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude. Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the… — Taylor Patton Copy Share Image
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“If you were not so gentle, If you were hard to please, If you were never patient And always ill at ease,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Don’t pack out! To some people, you make life bright When you decide to dim your light Their lives will be full… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“ O Deus Ego Amo Te Oh God, I love Thee mightily, Not only for Thy saving me, Nor yet because who… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.'… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Although I've written a few (a very few) poems over the years, I am not a natural poet...and I remain in awe… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“We were strange in love her and I too wild to last too rare to die.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“- Why are your poems so different from one another? - Because the years are different.” — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“The imperfect is our paradise. —WALLACE STEVENS, “The Poems of Our Climate,” 1938.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that. — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“Three birds sit on a wire One bird poops Three birds shit on a wire” — Eric Mancini Copy Share Image
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“I can’t help but ask, “Do you know where you are?” She turns to me with a foreboding glare. “Do you?” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“If the poems please you more than my lips, I will never give you another kiss.” — Juan Ramón Jiménez Copy Share Image
“She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Not words. nor laughter. but rather someone who will fall in love with your silence.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
