One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“There was a young lady of Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger; They returned from a ride With the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Don't ask her to be a rock for you to lean upon instead, build her wings and point her to the sky… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Today a young poet brought me 75 poems, some of them many pages long, I shall no doubt make an enemy of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Years ago I used to set my alarm for 4 am, so that I could wake up in the middle of a… — James Arthur 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
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately… — Mary Jo Salter 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
“Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes,… — Carol Emshwiller Copy Share Image
“Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a… — Ryokan Copy Share Image
It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to 'Harper's' magazine because… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good… — Roman Payne 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
He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them.… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from… — Adam Goldberg Copy Share Image
“She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“Poems are not for explaining," she said, her tone as bored and faintly scornful as his. "They are for pretty girls to… — Emily Horner Copy Share Image
“No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really… — Sherry D. Ficklin Copy Share Image
“I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“the poem doesn’t have stanzas, it has a body, the poem doesn’t have lines,/ it has blood, the poem is not written… — José Luís Peixoto Copy Share Image
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
“You are allowed to peel, just as you are allowed to reshape. You are allowed to re-form, just as you are allowed… — B. Elae Copy Share Image
Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And… — George Oppen 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
“A short poem from my book: Perspective Of course there is a hell she said and it has an observation deck; so… — Michelle Hartman Copy Share Image
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
