“Daddy-by Nancy B. Brewer When I used to say, speak up you are as good as they, You would just smile and… — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
I admit I made a mistake Over stepping some boundaries which made me look fake. I always said I would never do… — Yashowardhan Copy Share Image
“I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak But I know now it doesn't… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“In an Artist’s Studio One face looks out from all his canvases, One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans: We found… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I know I know this life is given for a reason god felt you would be strong enough to live it I… — Racheal Smith Copy Share Image
“Words I ONCE HEARD A MAN SAY OR WAS IT SOMEWHERE I READ, OR MAYBE SOMETHING I WROTE A THOUSAND TIMES IN… — Don S. McClure Copy Share Image
“In school, I hated poetry - those skinny, Malnourished poems that professors love; The bad grammar and dirty words that catch In… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
“From darkness; take me unto Light. O God! Help me today, make my maiden flight. From sorrow; give me the strength to… — Madhavi Sood alias Madhavi Mohandas Copy Share Image
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I Jarrod have created this poem on my own. If you like it subscribe and say something and rate it!tell me if… — Jarrod Copy Share Image
“Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for you, today I bring them all back, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
O' little flower love expresses within, supplying new blood blazoned fires begin; the exchange of pure-passion awakens our seeds, as loves creations… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost at Eighty" I think there are poems greater and stranger than any I have known. I would like to find… — Peter Boyle Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears… — Renee Dixon Copy Share Image
“when the glory night envelop the moon that would light up the exhilaration of heart.. the sun was reluctant to reveal smile… — Rinto Yusnianto Copy Share Image
“A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;A breaking of the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“no verse, no diction resurrected, shaped unless the thought of you dictates this ink, your slave as the poems flow through from… — Nejoud Al-Yagout Copy Share Image
“An Introduction to Poetry Readings" Preaching to the converted, the tormented and perverted Introspective melancholics, axe-grinding alcoholics Welcome to a night of… — Nasty Nigel Lawrence Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered What happens to all the poems people write? The poems they never let anyone else read? Perhaps they… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
“I could take a walk with my wife and try to explain the ghosts I can't stop speaking to. Or I could… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Everyone is so full of FUCKING BULL SHIT!!! you tell me lies yet you smile to my face!!! IM NOT YOUR BLOODY… — Hailey Whalen Copy Share Image
“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear,… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“ A Song I wish you were here, dear, I wish you were here. I wish you sat on the sofa and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
![“[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error…” quote by Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a9c/alain-de-botton-221_anxiety_l-ife-is-a-phenomenon-in-need-of-critici_1775630.jpg)
![“[L]ike poems, cruising carves privacy out of public spaces. Poems are a kind of private communication that occurs in public speech. And I think cruising is that too: a training in reading occult codes; a way of seeing a significance in the world that most people don’t see.” quote by Garth Greenwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/431/garth-greenwell-14165_codes_l-ike-poems-cruising-carves-privacy-out_265401.jpg)
