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Is Virgin you trying to
fathom me — Jack Kerouac

I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative — Jay Woodman

An apology, said while in dull pain, made me feel as close to human as it was possible to feel. I could have almost written a poem. — Matt Haig

Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun? — Kristen Henderson

A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation. — Charles Olson

I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together. — Sylvia Plath

She is dying because she said.
She is dying for the sake of the word.
It is her body, silent
and fingerless, writing this poem. — Margaret Atwood

Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos. — Billy Collins

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. — Emily Dickinson

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June. — Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. — Paul Nurse

People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963 — Sylvia Plath

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love. — Walt Whitman

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something. — Groucho Marx

perhaps the greatest poem ever written — Rod Dreher

There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. — Nicholas Mosley

The game was sinful,
But she was more playful.
She needs to be taught,
With every drop of the wax dot. — Delicious David

Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again! — Delano Johnson

One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever. — May Sarton

The poem of the understanding is philosophy. — Novalis

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. — Marilyn Hacker

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. — Drew Myron

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action. — Edward Hirsch

YOUR WORDS ARE MADE OF THE AIR I BREATHE. — Amy King

Life remains unchanged
till a leap of faith
runs towards heaven — Santosh Kalwar

Poem
Words from the heart
Breaking, teaching, healing
The deepest, purest form of art
Feeling — Esther Spurrill Jones

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps ... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. — Dylan Thomas

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. — Henry David Thoreau

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time. — Ralph Fletcher

A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee. — Arianna Huffington

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past. — Ben Lerner

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 mother's stories. — Alice Walker

Roses are red,
violets are blue,
I'm sick of this poem,
you probably are too. — Anne Mazer

I stand alone, a woman, a girl, and a child.
Unsuccessful at my first attempts of a poem
I am miserable when I fail. — Abigail George

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

I wanna make growing old with you
the last poem I ever have to write — Michael Biondi

what is a journey
without someone who wanders
if sometimes a pair
is made of two — Lori Jenessa Nelson

she is the poem that lives on his pages, burning in his hands, becoming beats all over his skin. — Gwen Calvo

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. — Octavio Paz

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. — C.S. Lewis

We are all writing God's poem. — Anne Sexton

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin

[When you meet a swordsman/ meet him with a sword Do not offer a poem to anyone but a poet] — Dan Simmons

The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it. — Henri Michaux

There's a lamentation in the flutter of your lash. — Laura A. Lord

A poem is a record of a discovery. — Ted Kooser

He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back. — Carolyn Kizer

He remembers which sister
I like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce') — Carrie Etter

If Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off. — Vivian Vande Velde

A poem is like a score for the human voice. — Li-Young Lee

I think he's wonderful and strange and kind of like a poem. — Whitley Strieber

the poem.
the one that is running through
your life.
pay attention.
to that poem. — Nayyirah Waheed

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow. — Matthea Harvey

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz

she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now — Beth Morey

She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable. — Deborah Levy

I am a poem. There is no way out. — Charles Bukowski

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Death stoops over me.
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer

..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi

Knowing you, I understood myself. — Kamand Kojouri

death poem of Hyakka, — Richard Flanagan

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. — Derek Walcott

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. — Tracy K. Smith

To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art. — Paul Valery

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. — Rachel Held Evans

A song is a poem set to music. — Tom T. Hall

Lo! A call for a bloody trial-
Retribution should it hail!
Whose? you ask,
For he that deems it a worthy task! — Carol Robi

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers

The amazing feeling that triggers the fountain of words that flow in my belly. — Euginia Herlihy

Being an American in Australia isn't easy,
but I'm trying to integrate, I'm trying to fit in. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

You smile and draw me near and whisper, "Do as dreamers do."
I lean to you and whisper in your ear, "I cannot dream tonight my Dear. For it is you. — Shaun Hick

I find that my reading, particularly nonfiction, can inspire a poem as well as anything else. — Billy Collins

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works. — Paulo Coelho

Every poem is unique to each person who reads it. — Salil Jha

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. — Edgar Allan Poe

All I know, all I can comprehend of the mathematics of a life, are the times your hand is inside my hand, and the times it is not. — Tyler Knott Gregson

The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets. — William Carlos Williams

Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse

Linear's defeated form
The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer — Stella Coulson

STATISTICS

Pack of Lucky Strikes.
A lottery ticket — ACT

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond. — Jane Hirshfield

A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping. — Marianne Boruch

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it. — Hilary Mantel

I say, flawless poems do not exist. — Ymatruz

A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be. — Taylor Mali

Love is a song, written in your heart.
The moon is a poem in a starry night. — Debasish Mridha

Every single soul is a poem. — Michael Franti

My first poem was a bolt from the blue ... it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy — William Carlos Williams

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri

It's a good poem if I'm a different person when I'm finished reading it. — Brandon Stanton