“She leaves my side and heads deeper into the apartment singing, “—if the spirit tries to hide, its temple far away… a… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
“Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
When I took my poetry class in school. I read an e. e. cumming's poem. I dont mind eels except how they… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
“Roses have thorns,’ we whine. When thorns of life entwine. Simple things can bring solace to heart-Things everyone take for granted-Like tending… — Val Uchendu Copy Share Image
“It...whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“ Success" If you want a thing bad enough To go out and fight for it, Work day and night for it,… — Berton Braley Copy Share Image
“THE POEMS OF OUR CLIMATE I Clear water in a brilliant bowl, Pink and white carnations. The light In the room more… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead" When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions… — Charles Hamilton Sorley Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thrones But I have… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“History doesn’t start with a tall building and a card with your name written on it, but jokes do. I think someone… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write… — Jorja Smith Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
“Take me back to those days, when you knew of my love, yet liked me nonetheless, and when I smiled at you,… — C. Madan Copy Share Image
“And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
One of the most famous poems I know by Maya Angelou is not 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' it's the… — Chi Chi DeVayne Copy Share Image
“Lovers, Forget Your love, And List To The Love Of These, She A Window Flower, And He A Winter Breeze.” -Robert Frost”… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
My LOVE For You Runs DEEP, DEEP As THE ABYSS, I Have So Much I Want To Tell You So I Will… — Mike 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
“They chased money, fast cars, and business empires. And all I ever wanted was to stare at the stars in the night… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based… — Dawn Huntsman Copy Share Image
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I fell completely off the face of the earth Contemplating life, light and love in the darkness of the void Strangely… — Neil Leckman 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
“Good folk, I have no coin, To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“The love of books is for children who glimpse in them a life to come, but I have come to that life… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
