Mother Quote by Sharon Doubiago

“My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.”

— Sinovuyo Nkonki

“My mom has poetry in her, something I never would have guessed. It must be where my words come from, flowing through me with…

— Mindy McGinnis

“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”

— David Carradine

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“...a woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

— Virginia Woolf

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my…

— Alice Walker

“sad is the poem i will never write”

— Jeet how Romentic

“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.”

— Kij Johnson

“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more The…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

— Natasha Trethewey