Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. …

- Eve Merriam

Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.

- Eve Merriam

Morning is a new sheet of paper for you to write on.

- Eve Merriam

...a good poem contains both meaning and music

- Eve Merriam

It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, n…

- Eve Merriam

whatever you do, find ways to read poerty. Eat it, drink it, enjoy it, and share it.

- Eve Merriam

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.

- Eve Merriam

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"

- Eve Merriam