Poem Quotes

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

Write me a poem in Morse code, goosebumps on my skin and lines on your neck.

If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Writing wasn’t just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.

If nature’s inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem.