Age Quote by Judith Viorst

“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.”

— Sharon Doubiago

I had written here and there about my mother in my poems. There are poems for her in my first and second books.

— Tracy K. Smith

“My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.”

— Sinovuyo Nkonki

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

— Audre Lorde

“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she had set…

— Liza Dalby

“There is also another mother….You walk upon her body. Her breasts grow your food. Her spirit is Nature. If you listen, you can hear…

— Louise M. Wisechild

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

— Natasha Trethewey

“She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings,…

— A.B. Shepherd

“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she…

— William S. Burroughs

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins

“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing of bereaved…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bear one more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the end…

— Jason Shinder