It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will. — Horace Copy Share Image
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“There will always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“When once we are buried you think we are gone. But behold me immortal!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“A short poem from my book: Perspective Of course there is a hell she said and it has an observation deck; so… — Michelle Hartman Copy Share Image
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Everyday I go to graveyard in search of her. maybe she can come back but in the end all i find is… — seerat Copy Share Image
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. — Nikki Giovanni 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
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“ Silence Never Silence never healed the lonely. Silence never comforted the broken hearted. Silence never saved a life. Silence never won… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Baudelaire" When I fall asleep, and even during sleep, I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking Whole phrases, commonplace and trivial, Having no… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“And so it’s hard for a certain kind of naïve mind at a restless, awakening time of year not to wonder, for… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
“I left the bank because they wouldn’t deposit my cheque of poems. So I went to the store, but they didn’t accept… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless,… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
“Lavender lilies all dotted with spots. Sun-yellow daffodils clustered in pots. Blue morning-glories climb trellises high. Powder-white asters like stars in the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
