Breakfast Quote by John Thomas Idlet (John Thomas

“My mom has poetry in her, something I never would have guessed. It must be where my words come from, flowing through me with…

— Mindy McGinnis

“I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.”

— Jessi Kirby

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

“I wonder if you ever read my poems and wish they were written for you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?”

— David S. Cross

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“This for That What will I have for breakfast? I wish I had some plums like the ones in Williams’s poem. He apologized to…

— Ron Padgett

“When life hits you in the gut, it’s always a sucker punch. You never see it coming. One moment you’re walking along, worrying your…

— Ilona Andrews

“This poem is the poem I'm writing because we aren't speaking, and it is making my heart hurt so bad that sometimes I can't…

— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

“When my life is unraveling, and everything about it is slack, my poems are taut. My poems take the fray and wind it back…

— J.A. Huss

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Life is a poem just waiting to be written, lift your pen and speak.”

— Susie Clevenger