I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me. — Edith Södergran Copy Share Image
“Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I want a quiet life other times I want to go a little bit fucking Gatsby.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger. — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
“My beloved isn't dazzling light, Darkness is my beloved – The reason I'm so fond of her…” — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
“From the first cup of coffee in the morning to playing in the sheets at night, I choose you to be by… — J.WOLF Copy Share Image
Dare to dream, dare to fly, dare to be the ever chosen one to touch the sky. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Grief is my shadow, Love is my light, I keep the pain where it belongs, behind me, as I move forward loving… — Vladislas Nikilovic Copy Share Image
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here:… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak But I know now it doesn't… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I admit I made a mistake Over stepping some boundaries which made me look fake. I always said I would never do… — Yashowardhan Copy Share Image
“If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
“In school, I hated poetry - those skinny, Malnourished poems that professors love; The bad grammar and dirty words that catch In… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
“Words I ONCE HEARD A MAN SAY OR WAS IT SOMEWHERE I READ, OR MAYBE SOMETHING I WROTE A THOUSAND TIMES IN… — Don S. McClure Copy Share Image
I cant wait to exchange more words, I can't wait to know him, until then he's just a stranger in my poems. — Arianna Lyzette Copy Share Image
“I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.” — Jenim Dibie Copy Share Image
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Sometimes those we love break us to bind us whole within the transition.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“As he took her hand he gave her all she had been waiting for-- a shiver down her spine.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
When Im all alone these words just flow out of my chest. Turn em into poems, they worship, Im the best. — J Cole Copy Share Image
“Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
