Robert Creely's poems have two main characteristics. 1) They are short; 2) they are not short enough. — John Simon Copy Share Image
“Put a girl in moonlight and tell only truths and every man becomes a poet.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time. — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The worst is when people - knowingly or not - carry prison inside themselves. - 9-10 P.M. Poems ” — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when… — Natasha Trethewey 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
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
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
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
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep How did we go from nonchalant conversation me… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I hide myself behind, a cloud of smoke; the smoke screen varies, dependent on the variable. The variable consists of: stress, anguish,… — Emily Sturgill Copy Share Image
“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share Image
“Evening by evening Among the Brookside rushes, Laura bow'd her head to hear, Lizzie veil'd her blushes: Crouching close together In the… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Humans will never be in charge of this world, as long as dust and weeds do as they please.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
“With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Poems is what could keep us happy, different words, different poets, different paths.” — Deyth Banger 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
“Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“You’re beautiful everyday. You just lack the courage confidence to see it.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“One day I’ll paint the perfect sunset-- if I can only find the words.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.” — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
