Brain Quote by Robert E. Howard

“I believe that poems, sometimes, perhaps most of the time, ignite something into us. They can transform us overnight. Poems can go to our…

— Yash Thakur

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth

A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak beyond the…

— Robin Beth Schaer

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who…

— Gregory Orr

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

I had, never been, A writer. My words, My thoughts, My feelings, Had always flowed, From my lips. And yet now, They simply flow.…

— Eric Nickel

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

— Virginia Woolf

I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what…

— Theodore Roethke

“{ Letter from Fawcett to the great Robert Ingersoll , 1894 } I do so wish, that, in all these big questions, literary men…

— Edgar Fawcett

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth