“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“We are all born free and spend a lifetime becoming slaves to our own false truths.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“I worry there is something broken in our generation, there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces…” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
“You will not know all about the fire simply because you asked. When she speaks of the forest this is what she… — Katie Ford Copy Share Image
I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“So what are your poems about? They're about ... how nothing is about, they're not about about. --Heather McHugh, 20-200 on 747” — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
“William tell, William tell, Take your arrow, grip it well, There’s the apple– – aim for the middle– – Oh well …… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
“It lies here deep in the heart, the small chest of pain Sharp words like daggers placed it here To fill with… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“We shall not sip from the same glass, No water for us, or sweet wine; We’ll not embrace at morning, Not gaze… — Anna Ahkmatova Copy Share Image
There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
( Hey guys heres one of my poems I wrote hope you like it comment so I can see :) ) ask… — Natalya Johnson Copy Share Image
“Everything Is Going to Be All Right How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window… — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
“Break out to go out: The birds dare to break the egg shell It does so in order to get out of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all… — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
