“How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …” — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A versifier’s poem is born by the sound; a poet’s sound is born by the poem.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“You’re speaking volumes, my friend, and tonight we’re doing short poems only.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“The sea waves stirred before me they dashed against the rocks Like a mermaid rising from its depths curled white sea foam… — Giselle V. Steele Copy Share Image
“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts,… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“If happiness left scars on our bodies, we would never forget about all the glorious moments we’ve been blessed with.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems.… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kipling There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Little soul, little perpetually undressed one, do now as I bid you, climb the shelf-like branches of the spruce tree; wait at… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I breathe in... The sights and smells Of this city I’ve come to know... So well I gaze... Across the turquoise ocean… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I wanted a perfect ending, now i've learned the hard way, that some poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont have a… — Ana Copy Share Image
“I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“At the Sound of the Gunshot, Leave A Message That's what my friend spoke into his grim machine the winter he first… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Moonless nights haunt me. They evoke my once carefree life when I dreamed without doubt to what my future could be. I… — H.S. Crow Copy Share Image
