I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“The road was so dimly lighted. There we;re no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds, If all roads… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
I just sit down and write. I never know when. The most recent one is 'Sarah Still,' which is about our life,… — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I ran up the door, closed the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers, turned off my bed and jumped… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. Theres only us, theres only this; forget… — Jonathan Larson Copy Share Image
Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
When American poet Alice Notley was very young, she used to sit in front of the radio and just listen. When she… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
“The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the… — Federico García Lorca 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
“If I were to sit on the ocean floor and look toward the sky, I might see a whale or electric eel… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“You ask if I will write a poem I could, I suppose write the most splendiferous one of all but not right… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“When by me in the dusk my child sits down I am myself. Simon, if it’s that loose, let me wiggle it… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“I look forward all day to evening, and then I put an "engaged" on the door and get into my nice red… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
