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Love and memory and thought and dream ~My favorite poems have never been written in words. — Kij Johnson
You are the poemthat sticks in my throat
teaching me to whisper
with the voice of my heart. — Jessica Kristie
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
She sat in her perfect house, with her perfect husband,
wishing that her perfect life
would end. — Atticus Poetry
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.
— Henri Cole
There is nothing prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
with every breath she takes. — Atticus Poetry
Broken.As I search for hope,
In the same eyes
I lost it. — Jessica Kristie
Today I bumped into you again. You seemed like that flower long forgotten in the old diary.
— Avijeet Das
my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words. — Sanober Khan
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.
— J. Patrick Lewis
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.
— Edward Hirsch
I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
When I am dead, even then,I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you. — Muriel Rukeyser
Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
— William Carlos Williams
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
— Alfonso A. Ossorio
I look into your eyes and I'm sure that some divine artist dipped her brush in the same soul and used it to paint us both.
— Cristen Rodgers
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
— Simon Armitage
I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.
— Alison Hawthorne Deming
Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.
— Jonathan Galassi
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
— Jack Nicholson
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
— Philip Dunne
And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
— Peter Bichsel
Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
There will always
a glimmer
in those
who have been
through the dark. — Atticus Poetry
Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own way of working.
— Jane Hirshfield
While you've been away, I've been copying poems out in a book so that I could whisper them to you as you fell asleep.
— Paulo Coelho
Love in the heart tingles the stomach -Kissing with butterfly wings on the lips -
Seen star for star, millions of stars. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.
— Hayden Carruth
Lies belong in poems
— Kenneth Koch
It was never the way she lookedalways the way she was
I would have fallen in love with her
with my eyes closed. — Atticus Poetry
... girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those "in the know" assured me that they were beautiful.
— Jake Vander Ark
There's too much risk in loving,'the young boy said,
'no,'
said the old man,
'there's too much risk in not. — Atticus Poetry
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.
— Edward Hirsch
My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.
— Frank O'Hara
In his former life though, as the cool guy, he would never have picked up a book, especially one with poems in it.
— Shaun Meeks
I sent my words out onto the windto paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson
The world, finally, tries to rob us in lots of ways. I like poems to do a bit of taking back for us.
— Terry Blackhawk
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
— Seamus Heaney
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
— Natalie Goldberg
Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish.
— Nayyirah Waheed
It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, "Madame la Fleurie," Collected Poems I
— Cornelia Funke
I feel your words on my lipsand feel your mood in my hips — Maquita Donyel Irvin
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.
— Denise Duhamel
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.
— Patti Smith
some winterswill never melt
some summers
will never freeze
and some things will only
... live in poems. — Sanober Khan
I mean you ask menot to fall in love with you
and then you go write poems
with your tongue
and draw constellations
in my freckles. — Clementine Von Radics
Sometimes the rainfalls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song. — Sanober Khan
Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:after death
how will I know my love was true,
this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity? — Phan Ming Yen
Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.
— Hans Christian Andersen
Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.
— Dejan Stojanovic
i am permanentlytanned
in the summer of poetry. — Sanober Khan
We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms.
— Kevin Fuller
In the street of the sky night walks scattering poems
— E. E. Cummings
I exaggerateThere is a lie in my truth
Look! My soul is blue — A.A. Patawaran
The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine.
— Jenim Dibie
I believe in family values and following your dreams.
— JoAnne Myers
