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“We shall not sip from the same glass, No water for us, or sweet wine; We’ll not embrace at morning, Not gaze from the…

— Anna Ahkmatova

When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country…

— May Sarton

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

— May Sarton

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

— May Sarton

I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have…

— May Sarton

“Under the starry sky, I count every dim space.”

— Ritu Negi

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

— Kamand Kojouri

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

“Don’t pack out! To some people, you make life bright When you decide to dim your light Their lives will be full of darkness…

— Israelmore Ayivor

My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost.…

— Natasha Trethewey

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so…

— Amber Tamblyn

“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)”

— Pierre Reverdy