2,705 Quotes About Poem

I want so little: another leather boundBook, a gimlet with a lavender gin, breadSo good when I taste it I can tell youHow it’s made. I’d like us to rethinkWhat it is to be a nation. I’m in a mood about AmericaToday.

I never understand other peoples' desires or hopes,until they coincide with my own, then we clash.

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

I’m not asking for much. A more tender worldwith less hatred strutting the streets.Perhaps a downtick in state-sanctioned violenceagainst civilians. Wind through the trees.Water under the bridge. Kindness.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.

They said you are a bird,And birds should soar high.So I spread my wings,And decided to touch the sky.Foolish me -- for I am a penguin,And penguins can never fly.

COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world.

To be able to hand somebody a poem like you’d hand them a hammer or 20 bucks and say, 'I hope this helps' ...is not only powerful but our responsibility as poets.

In every possibility of a mind May you travel, yet not blind. As a head filled with imagination, Goes a heart full of gold creation, It's never late to have a dream. Nor is it so far away as it seems, And, like a rearview mirror reveals, Thus a fantasy soon becomes real. It may be closer than it appears. Or at least it will show up clear. Never give up a dream for fear!