“Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“From grain of sand, Births light births space births infinite time, and to grain of sand do all things return.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree. Way… — Langston Hughes 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
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Outside, the meadows - dewy and golden are cloaked in summer blooms. My heart, scorching and desolate sighs and sings sad songs… — Neena H Brar 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 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
“There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive… — Thomas Lux Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Some people like me, some don't. I don't understand, Where the difference comes from. My heart like them all. For a simple… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such… — Samuel Johnson 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
“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
“I cast my eyes out to the sea and gaze at all eternity until forever turns to night. My eyes then lift… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
One plus one is two. That's how it is with me and you, and since the sky is always blue, know that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“If water won't smother the blaze Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire see if the fires will wither.” — Zakariya Amataya Copy Share Image
“I listen to the rainfall, my words wanna flow! Droplets run down the wall, where do they go? Letters in the raw,… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
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