“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“So old were you, Grammpa— the last time I saw you, anaemic You looked like the monsoon in my town.” — Abhijit Sarmah Copy Share Image
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of… — James Welch Copy Share Image
“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its… — John H Ritter Copy Share Image
My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Already the people murmur that I am your enemy because they say that in verse I give the world your me. They… — Julia de Burgos Jack Agüero Translator Copy Share Image
There is peace in my soul For such a long awaited time There is love in my life love for you my… — Joshua Howard Altman Copy Share Image
Celebrating historic triumphs is a favorite pastime for many Turks. Tales of how Turkic peoples emerged from Central Asia, crossed the steppes… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
“When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“I did it the hard way Many of the big dreams I dreamt, I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt. Life… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“When They Die We Change Our Minds About Them When they die we change our minds about them. While they live we… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
