#poem

Nothing gold can stay. ↗

— Robert Frost

#poem #inspirational

You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs. ↗

— Rubén Darío

#love #poem #poetry #soul #universe

These are the woes of Slaves;/They glare from the abyss;/They cry, from unknown graves,/"We are the Witnesses! ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#henry #henry-wadsworth-longfellow #inspirational #longfellow #poems

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook ↗

— Nizar Qabbani

#lantern #light #poem #inspirational

think think think until you blink ↗

— ganeshsaidheeraj

#love #men-rights #poems #science #women

A picture is a poem without words. ↗

— Horace

#picture #poem #without #words

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself. ↗

— James Welch

#been #could #exercises #focus #had

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#completely #each #extensions #generated #generates

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on. ↗

— John Barton

#aside #cannot #even #failed #give

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#am #any #ask #dear #does