Crab Quote by Jeffrey L. Hollman

“poetry melts my bones. enters my blood. and changes its composition.”

— Sanober Khan

“I walked to Mairangi Bay beach, day after day, seeking companionship in the roar of the ocean, and contemplating the shipwreck of my life.…

— B.G. Bowers

“Poetry is the sound of the human animal.”

— Suniti Namjoshi

“A good poem doesn't need to rhyme or have fancy words. It needs to touch the reader, hug them when arms cannot do the…

— Goldie Nanwani

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman

“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow movement, it…

— Balroop Singh

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“This isn’t a poem, it’s a 3 am conversation on your basement couch and a quiet night spent on the bench next to the…

— Christopher Korenczuk

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?”

— Cecil Day-Lewis

“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,…

— Robert Frost

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees…

— Rumi