People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
“The first time I saw your face, my lips said, "hello" and my heart said, "that's your wife.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“She sat in her perfect house, with her perfect husband, wishing that her perfect life would end.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“We danced on broken glasses, painting a bloody masterpiece on the floor. The painful it got, the harder we danced. We didn't… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It was never the way she looked always the way she was I would have fallen in love with her with my… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Years ago I used to set my alarm for 4 am, so that I could wake up in the middle of a… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Where you find Truth Is where you find your reflection And where you find your reflection Is where you find love And… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A lot of the stuff that I see, because it's part of the work that I do, is look at pictures and… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“Overmodulation By Charlotte M Liebel-Fawls You're a cavity in my oasis, You're a porthole in my sea, You're a stretch of the… — Charlotte M. Liebel Copy Share Image
“The more I learned the less I felt I knew you and I got lost counting stars, I fell dreaming. Sometimes I’d… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of… — Kathryn Stripling Byer Copy Share Image
“You leave behind your fine poems. You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You… — Aliette de Bodard Copy Share Image
