Maybe Quote by Mary Oliver

“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The real is the poem. Hence, for the poet—our figure for the writer as artist—to write is to get real.”

— Gémino H. Abad

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what…

— Jack Spicer

“Often one spends weeks trying to write a poem out of the conscious mind that never comes to anything - these are sort of…

— Philip Larkin

“Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.”

— Barbara Samuel

“If a sky this dark can still be peppered with so much light, maybe this world can be too.”

— Amy Christine Parker

Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.

— Jackson Pearce

“Maybe the world would burn. But if truth was all it took to start the fire, maybe it needed to.”

— Marcus Sakey

...maybe the world needs a cadre of smartasses to liven things up, who knows?

— Stephen King

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

— Rachel Joyce

Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached…

— Erik Weihenmayer

“You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.”

— Daniel Suarez