Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Everyday I go to graveyard in search of her. maybe she can come back but in the end all i find is… — seerat Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“You will not know all about the fire simply because you asked. When she speaks of the forest this is what she… — Katie Ford Copy Share Image
“I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I feel like a caged bird waiting to be freed Living in a world where people are not what they seem Not… — Curly Girl Copy Share Image
“She was resilient A brave soldier when life tested her It didn't matter that she did strange things like stand tall under… — M.J. Abraham Copy Share Image
“Friends, the ancient word is dead; the ancient books are dead; our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead; our poems… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“If I could go back in time to when I wrote sad little poems, I’d punch myself right in the fucking face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Wedding Hymn Father, within Thy House today We wait Thy kindly love to see; Since thou hast said in truth that… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
“Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“I look in the mirror and see myself, and yet I really don’t. Only an image is perceived, not things I will… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“So what are your poems about? They're about ... how nothing is about, they're not about about. --Heather McHugh, 20-200 on 747” — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
“William tell, William tell, Take your arrow, grip it well, There’s the apple– – aim for the middle– – Oh well …… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“We danced on broken glasses, painting a bloody masterpiece on the floor. The painful it got, the harder we danced. We didn't… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
I spent my days waiting for you, searching the crowds for your face. I stopped breathing the moment you recognized me, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
“An envy of that one consummate part Swept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my… — Leonie Adams Copy Share Image
“2.07 WALK OF LIFE Life but like a cycle that you be riding, You will fall if you ever stop peddling, Life… — Munindra (Munnan) Misra Copy Share Image
I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts,… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“The townspeople took the prince for dead When he never returned with the dragon’s head When with her, he stayed She thought… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
“The sea waves stirred before me they dashed against the rocks Like a mermaid rising from its depths curled white sea foam… — Giselle V. Steele 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
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
“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
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