“Asthmatic spewer of filth gasps, but clean air does not suffice To fuel fires fueled by thoughts got rotten Lest we all… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“no verse, no diction resurrected, shaped unless the thought of you dictates this ink, your slave as the poems flow through from… — Nejoud Al-Yagout Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. Alas, burthen,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;A breaking of the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“ A Song I wish you were here, dear, I wish you were here. I wish you sat on the sofa and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Emotional pain was the price I paid on the path to becoming a woman. So excuse me if I’m not clueless like… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
“You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
I was shy at school, but not at home. We had a boiler that had tiles around it, so if my sister… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
“…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.” — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
“I screamed at myself in the subway for writing poems about you still. I made a scene. I think about you almost… — Jon Sands Copy Share Image
“Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I'm a poet. My business? Writing. How do I live? I live. In my happy poverty I squander like… — Rodolfo La Bohmé Copy Share Image
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“...so i will greet you in a way all loved things are meant to be greeted with a tear in my heart… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I breathe in... the fragrance of love, and moist sand the one his roses left on both my hands I just keep… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Poems are not often simply emotions but One has enough emotions -- they're experience Experience themselves are not important…” — Angela Suba Natarajan Copy Share Image
“in the end it is words poetry. sunsets someone’s deep blue silk voice. mountain scents. someone’s smile. eyes. that we have no… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
