“She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“And the stars blinked as they watched her carefully jealous of the way she shone.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a disease spread by people who try to use other people to cure their loneliness.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
You choose darkness, you choose light, but you will know if you chose right. — Haddi Az Copy Share Image
I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
“In every breeze exhales the promise of spring, Each sleeping tree dreams green dreams; the barren mountain wakes in blossom.” — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?” — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as… — Horace Copy Share Image
I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“From darkness; take me unto Light. O God! Help me today, make my maiden flight. From sorrow; give me the strength to… — Madhavi Sood alias Madhavi Mohandas Copy Share Image
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within… — Audre Lorde 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
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“An Introduction to Poetry Readings" Preaching to the converted, the tormented and perverted Introspective melancholics, axe-grinding alcoholics Welcome to a night of… — Nasty Nigel Lawrence Copy Share Image
Looking for something in them that ive only found in you. Its true, its always been you — Meesha B Copy Share Image
“Roses are red Violets are blue I don't go on this account So go away SHOO!” — bob C Cow Copy Share Image
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
ð¶ð¤ðð¬ Life's A Bitch And Then Ya DIE Thats Why I Get High, Cause Ya Never Know When Your Gonna Go! — Michael Copy Share Image
Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. — Niki de St. Phalle Copy Share Image
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“You said we can't happen, but darling, we started happening the very first day we met.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Friends are like poems, you may never fully understand them, but you will always love them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it… — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
“It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she… — robert m drake 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
I was surprised and laugh when I found my childhood written poems, one line was I like saving cash coins or money,… — Mhaj Porras 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