“moonlight disappears down the hills mountains vanish into fog and i vanish into poetry.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day. — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“If I were John Lennon And my feelings for you grew, I'd have left The Beatles To spend all my time with… — Lisa Swerling Copy Share Image
“She, silent starlight, drifts beyond the reach of words, anchored in still skies.” — L. Rose Copy Share Image
“For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art… — Jane Cooper Copy Share Image
Beginnings are dreary, and endings too hard, spirit of life is always vast, neither do we meet, nor do we part, the… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“When I am dead, even then, I will still love you, I will wait in these poems, When I am dead, even… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“The prompt didn’t help me much, since all poems were difficult for me to write. They were like mirrors you held up… — Brittany Cavallaro Copy Share Image
“There is a stillness between us, a period of restlessness that ties my stomach in a hangman’s noose. It is this same… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Here are the skies, the planets seven, And all the starry train: Content you with the mimic heaven, And on the earth… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems.” — Magdalena Ciocan Copy Share Image
“I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.” — X.J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.” — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are. — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
“The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe.” — Michael McClure Copy Share Image
“...some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“I touched curiosity, I kissed sin, I felt regret, And I was forgiven. But life won't let me forget.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
