Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the… — Sarah Knowles Bolton Copy Share Image
I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I never find words right away. Poems for me always begin with images and rhythms, shapes, feelings, forms, dances in the back… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“There lived a poet in the lands of gold, Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold, His words spoke truth and… — Adhish Mazumder Copy Share Image
One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I want words which are scalpel sharp and shiny; poems keen enough to gut a fish and clean it. Poems labelled not… — Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Beyond the Years I the years the answer lies, Beyond where brood the grieving skies And Night drops tears. Where Faith rod-chastened… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
“December is... by Stewart Stafford December is all that we give, And whatever we receive, It is those who surround us, And… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I tasted danger on his lips and became an addict. A slave to adrenaline and irrational behaviour. We lived recklessly in a… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real… — Mark Strand 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 Finch Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing. — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
“He pulled me close and said, "Katie, don't leave me, you're my breath, I refuse to live without you." It was the… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
There are some books in which every poem is a facet of the same thing. So the book is like a piece… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Oh on my breast in days hereafter Light the earth should lie, Such weight to bear is now the air, So heavy… — A.E. Housman 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
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
“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
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
“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
