Children Quote by Frank O'Hara

“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else can enter.”

— Debasish Mridha

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

— Marguerite Young

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

— Sharon Olds

“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.”

— Wajid Shaikh

“The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.”

— Ocean Crisstopher Poet

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short…

— Olga Masters

I write from the various experiences I live. Not every poem comes from my personal experience, though. It could be something that a friend…

— Rupi Kaur

I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I…

— Tracy K. Smith