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
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
“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“She was cool— the whole world seemed to spin around her in smooth jazz.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.” — robert m drake 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
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
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“The length of novels, poems and stories, is measured by the number of missing words; a thousand pages become one, one becomes… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Yet, the man never goes slow! Feted against all the odds. How? Nobody knows. Undeterred, unabated, yet uncharted he goes...” — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
“When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I write poems. And then they say: 'No, what… — Mike Algera Copy Share Image
I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look… — Randall Jarrell 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“ 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
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way. — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts. — Maia Wojciechowska Copy Share Image
Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan” — T.S. Garp Copy Share Image
A glass of papaya juice and back to work. My heart isin my pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
