“Loneliness is a disease spread by people who try to use other people to cure their loneliness.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Roses are red Violets are blue I don't go on this account So go away SHOO!” — bob C Cow Copy Share Image
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“And the stars blinked as they watched her carefully jealous of the way she shone.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is 'Sarah Still,' which is about our life,… — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
“The road was so dimly lighted. There we;re no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds, If all roads… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems.… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“If happiness left scars on our bodies, we would never forget about all the glorious moments we’ve been blessed with.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“ Silence Never Silence never healed the lonely. Silence never comforted the broken hearted. Silence never saved a life. Silence never won… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“You ask if I will write a poem I could, I suppose write the most splendiferous one of all but not right… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“If I were to sit on the ocean floor and look toward the sky, I might see a whale or electric eel… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now.… — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
“The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
“At the Sound of the Gunshot, Leave A Message That's what my friend spoke into his grim machine the winter he first… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Not words. nor laughter. but rather someone who will fall in love with your silence.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery 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
“The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe.” — Michael McClure Copy Share Image
People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.” — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“She, silent starlight, drifts beyond the reach of words, anchored in still skies.” — L. Rose Copy Share Image
“If I were John Lennon And my feelings for you grew, I'd have left The Beatles To spend all my time with… — Lisa Swerling Copy Share Image
