Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I was writing poems and little freestyle raps in my notes throughout all of elementary and high school. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
“Words mean nothing Actions are everything Expect nothing Appreciate everything” — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
“In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, “I don’t know if you or I… — Linh Dinh Copy Share Image
“It's not Adventureland, but you write some poems, the leaves move, and you get laid sometimes." Tom Drury's Pierre Hunter on life.” — Tom Drury Copy Share Image
My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“I have seen your darkest nights and brightest days and I want you to know that I will be here forever loving… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“I used to think that in the end, we would laugh at the world together. I guess now, the world is laughing… — Athena Violante Copy Share Image
“If I could have one friend, just one in all the world, I know that I would not seek out a boy… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I never try to force poems into a collection simply because they were written/published within a certain period of time. They will… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“The evening sky is gold and vast. I’m soothed by April’s cool caress. You’re late. Too many years have passed, - I’m… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“I had suitcases filled with poems hoping to change the shape of liberty bludgeoned by unheard hearts I saw an angel and… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“I serve him because he appreciates being served. He serves me because he’s humble enough to, and I’m his peace. I don’t… — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
“This wobbly world host to insects and lint and a thousand pithy ways to feel unserious each minute It brings about a… — Erin J. Watson Copy Share Image
I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“We humans are so tortured by not properly guessing what will make us happy.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too. — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
“We left dents on each other. Mine was in her heart, and hers was on my car.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key. — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“I will follow you, my love, to the edge of all our days, to our very last tomorrows.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“A few drinks and the world was hers— she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
