Asks Quote by Lucille Clifton

“Children are like poems. They're beautiful -- to their creators -- but to others they're just silly and fucking annoying.”

— Doug Stanhope

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

— Sharon Doubiago

Like your Mom was a Poet Girl? I see you take after her with your lyrics !!

— Glen Rambharack

“This boy at school taught me. But then he pulled my ponytail on the playground the next day, so I'm not really friends with…

— Shelly Crane

A mother undertsands what a child does not say.

— Anonymous

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent…

— Masiela Lusha

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

— Aleister Crowley

“Because you fight it out, and stumble, and write bad poetry, and pick yourself up again, and at the end, hopefully, someday youre sitting…

— Josie Bloss

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep…

— Wendy Cope

“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

“Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.”

— Andrew Galasetti

Mothers ... would do anything to steer their daughter the right way. It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, 'You…

— Caitlin Flanagan