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A Poem

by Nichita Stanescu

Nichita Stanescu

Tell me, if I caught you one day
and kissed the sole of your foot,
wouldn't you limp a little then,
afraid to crush my kiss?…




Quotes of the Day

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

• Salvatore Quasimodo



Poems of the Day
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    The Old Wooden Cradle
    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    Good-bye to the cradle, the dear wooden cradle The rude hand of Progress has thrust it aside. No more to its motion o'er sleep's fairy ocean, Our play-weary wayfarers peacefully glide.