Blessed Quote by Robert Lowell

“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

“The prompt didn’t help me much, since all poems were difficult for me to write. They were like mirrors you held up to a…

— Brittany Cavallaro

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“The things that will be spoken here come from the images and things that I see as well as hear. These object or random…

— The Prolific Penman

“Manage me, I am a mess, swept under the rug of yesterday’s home improvement, a whimsical urge tossed aside for the easy reassurance of…

— Alex Gaskarth

“Have you remembrances, the glimmering arches that span the summits of the mind?”

— Khalil Gibran

“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep,—…

— John Keats

“Ars Poetica I taught my words to love, I showed them my heart and would not give up until their syllables did not start…

— Nichita Stănescu

“I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid, and I discovered that letters linked into words, and that the words…

— David Levithan

“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp the full…

— James W. Sire

“It seems like it’s all just remembering and forgetting. Things happen so fast, and then they’re gone before you notice them. Events ambush you…

— Gregory Galloway