“Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Each mortal beast must find it's Ground- be it forrest or fen or field or fire.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“Peter Swirling dreams Dragons knew Touching life to win Deep inside many other worlds Where should we begin?” — William O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The was her magic, she could still see the sunset even on those darkest days.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“Asthmatic spewer of filth gasps, but clean air does not suffice To fuel fires fueled by thoughts got rotten Lest we all… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were… — James Broughton 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
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
“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
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
“[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
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
“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
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
“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
“ 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
“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
“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume. — Grazia Deledda Copy Share Image
Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places. — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
“She was afraid of heights but she was much more afraid of never flying.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual. — Matthea Harvey 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 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/i/431/garth-greenwell-14165_codes_l-ike-poems-cruising-carves-privacy-out_265401.jpg)
