For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
When you awaken in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circle flight, I am soft stars… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I worry there is something broken in our generation, there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
Love will work. The primal heart will override common sense, knock you off your fence and have raging and storming trapped desire,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You choose darkness, you choose light, but you will know if you chose right. — Haddi Az Copy Share Image
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.” — Robert Lynd Copy Share Image
“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;A breaking of the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“It was never the way she looked always the way she was I would have fallen in love with her with my… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
