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After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,
Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own. — Marina Tsvetaeva

May, and after a rainy spring
We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons. — Alicia Suskin Ostriker

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

With'n these ribs is / a City of Luminous / all thanks t'you. — Evy Zen

A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation. — Charles Olson

Your life is a poetry with purpose. — Debasish Mridha

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

concept: me, wandering through the morning fog of a flowery hillside. the world is still and silent and calm — L.J. Buchanan

No one knows here, that the Death is actually, Actually to Born. — Samar Sudha

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. — Jenny Eclair

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. — Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens

I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands. — Trista Mateer

I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. — Oscar Wilde

Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again! — Delano Johnson

Over the water of time I call to you
In a language I do not know. — Ellen S. Jaffe

Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals ... — Sarah Gorham

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. — Amy Clampitt

Muse [10w]
Poetry's a collaboration with your muse.
Silence!
Let her speak. — Beryl Dov

Life remains unchanged
till a leap of faith
runs towards heaven — Santosh Kalwar

A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert

Be a poet in action as well as in words. — Marty Rubin

Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world. — Stephanie Hemphill

You're a defiant act
of creation. — Elisabeth Hewer

Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth. — Debasish Mridha

what is a journey
without someone who wanders
if sometimes a pair
is made of two — Lori Jenessa Nelson

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. — Sylvia Plath

But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. — Wislawa Szymborska

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. — Simon Schama

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

Every single soul is a poem. — Michael Franti

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. — Sarah Kay

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions. — Dejan Stojanovic

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri

She gave me hugs that were like oxygen to a dying man and uplifted my soul! — Avijeet Das

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

No man has the courage to approach her or initiate questions she herself rise, for all men fear a fascist and she can very well be a fascist's wife. — Mie Hansson

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster

Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul. — Pietros Maneos

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri

None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin. — Sheri Holman

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) — William Shakespeare

Grace will drop
into your pocket
on a day of waning light- — Laurel Garver

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

No, thank you," he flashed that grin of his. "I've been wondering what the lair of a poetry-inclined psychologist looks like. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. — John Masefield

Go on down to the local palm reader,
she'll spit out exactly what you feed her
because honey, you already knew
your husband was a cheater. — Casey Renee Kiser

But sometimes a kiss is not a kiss is not a kiss. Sometimes it's a poetry. — Julie Buxbaum

I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write. — Benjamin Clementine

Two girls discover the secret of life
in a sudden line of poetry. — Denise Levertov

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton

Because my life without you would be
a place of parched and broken trees ... — Mary Oliver

Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today. — Delano Johnson

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz

The history of man is a must read poetry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success. — Babette Deutsch

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin
a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. — Craig Johnson

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. — Carl Sandburg

Within my palm there is a world, a world as delicate as a bubble! — Preeth Nambiar

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku. — Frank Horvat

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. — Stephen Fry

Winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird ... — John Geddes

I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. — Zona Gale

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship. — Robert Graves

What
a strange
world.
We
trade our days
for things. — Atticus Poetry

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. — Gyorgy Ligeti

How they had dreamed together, he and she ... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable. — Deborah Levy

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie

The world is a navy in an empty ocean. — Dejan Stojanovic

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown ... — Henry Miller

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. — Derek Walcott

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. — Neil Gaiman

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight ... every word is war. — Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. — Tracy K. Smith

If everyone read the poetry of Pablo Neruda we'd be a more peaceful, reflective world. Poetry can save lives. — Laura Moe

Death stoops over me.
I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer

Let it never be said / there can be a Heaven / without fresh bread. — Glenn Logan Reitze

Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy. — Rita Dove

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery

[Wine is] poetry in a bottle. — Clifton Fadiman

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do. — Luke Treadaway

I stay away from weed because it's a gateway drug. I like heroine, you're not going anywhere from there. — Atticus

When a boy I could never bear to read any Poetry whatever without disgust and reluctance," he said.32 He — Benita Eisler

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. — Jack London