Poem Quote by Salleh Razak

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

— Helen Vendler

“Whatever you want," he said. "Will you please come here now?" I slipped a piece of protective tissue over my drawing and flipped the…

— Melissa Jensen

“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon…

— Charles Bukowski

“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while…

— Li-Young Lee

“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for…

— Ramon Ravenswood

“I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple…

— Shel Silverstein

“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing…

— David Nicholls

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this world more…

— Deeper sense of presence Isabella koldras