“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“To wander solitary there: Two paradises ‘twere in one To live in paradise alone.” — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Letting go I can have a firm foundation To honor you And hold you in my heart” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“Who can guess the impatience of stone to be ground down, to be a part of something livelier?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am” — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“4) Step Four Now that we are in the secret place meditating on the presence of God it is good to read… — Adam Houge Copy Share Image
“POEM FOR SOUKAÏNA” **** To tell of my new Moroccan Love, Ô, I court her everyday. But just as a pearl in… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
And when we will finally understand all this we will know how to see our God that is our Creating Factor and… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
He was all emotion all the time, constantly talking about his feelings and his profound love for her. He was minutes from… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
