Hope Quote by John Yamrus

“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very best poem…

— Dodie Smith

“Sit here, so I may write you into a poem and make you eternal.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“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

“Poetry helps heal wounds. Makes them tangible.”

— Isabel Quintero

“I found poetry to be an outlet for everything I was dealing with. It quickly became not only my voice, but my therapy. I…

— Natalie Perry

“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

“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating…

— Billy Collins

“The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“On the wall above the chair, a picture, framed but with no glass: a print of flowers,”

— Margaret Atwood

“I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

“This is the kind of room poets are supposed to work in, the kind of room that threatens to break your spirit and forces…

— Paul Auster