I really enjoy doing my poems. So that's it; I'm condemned in some way to be a poet. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I don't have an inflated opinion of how much artistic merit the poems I do have. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“A few drinks and the world was hers— she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“I let her go because I knew she could do better and now she's gone I wonder if I should've just been… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Struggle is not about fighting. struggle is something which will convert your bad days into your better days.” — seerat Copy Share Image
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person. — Norman MacCaig 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
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
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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires, There come… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“If You Forget Me if you forsake me I shall forget you too don’t take me for the lone redbud that lay… — Neena H Brar Copy Share Image
“That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“que ferais-je sans ce monde que ferais-je sans ce monde sans visage sans questions où être ne dure qu'un instant où chaque… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“I had to choose between getting burned by my father, the sun, relentlessly burning and leaving me burnt. Too hurt, too scorching… — Isabel Villarreal Copy Share Image
