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Dear:

I am dying
without you, and I won't be dying long. But don't come.

Best always,
Frank — Frank O'Hara

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. — Philip Levine

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. — Maurice Druon

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can. — Matthew Arnold

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best. — Donald Hall

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain — Steve Chalke

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best? — Jay-Z

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. — Walter Savage Landor

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. — Criss Jami

It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh — A.A. Milne

The best grammarian still can't write a verse. — Dagobert D. Runes

No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree.
It will do you no best, until a shingle you free. — Shahzad Ashraf

Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open. — Leza Lowitz

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten. — Rosa Sophia

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. — Nicolas Chamfort

Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes. — Harold Bloom

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be. — Natasha Trethewey

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds. — Ellen Hopkins

Sacred space in which
To distil, like amber,
The best of your love. — Scott Hastie

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character. — Henry David Thoreau

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. — James Broughton

Poetry: the best words in the best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hi, My best inspiration for poetry comes from walking and sharing with friends. Let me know what you think.Diana — Diana Kanecki

Our best history is still poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. — Charles Bukowski

Who loves you most, and loves you best, and thinks of you when others rest? 'Tis Emilie. — Emily Dickinson

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. — John Donne

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think. — Grant Morrison

For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry is man's best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions. — John Ciardi

She fell in love with her doctor's stethoscope, the way it listened to her heart. — Russell Edson

The best gift you can give today is the gift of LOVE! — Colishia S. Benjamin

Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more. — Jennifer A. Marshall

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come. — A.A. Milne

I think poetry is best read to oneself. — Rickie Lee Jones

The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world. — Daniel J. Rice

The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry — Dermot McCabe

I wouldn't want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days! — Frank O'Hara

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. — Sylvia Plath

The best tourist is one without a camera — Kamand Kojouri

Unconditional love is furnished by many 4 legged creatures, but chiefly by human kinds best friend DOG! — Ladee Basset

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. — Miller Williams

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,
They scorn the best I can do to relate them. — Walt Whitman

I try to think of metaphors that suit him best, but he was made of the sea and the stars and the sun, and one wouldn't do him justice. — Zorgie Adriana Sanchez

My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive. — Tanya R. Liverman

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. — Jim Harrison

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best. — Marty Rubin

Isn't it worth missing whatever joy / you might have dreamed, to wake in the night and find / you and your beloved are holding hands in your sleep? — Galway Kinnell

You saved me, you should remember me. — Louise Gluck

Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies — Oscar Sparrow

Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems. — Naomi Shihab Nye

With wine beside a gently flowing brook - this is the best;
Withdrawn from sorrow in some quiet nook - this is the best — Hafez

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." — Denise Duhamel

You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up the
poet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot

She wore her scars
as her best attire.
A stunning dress
made of hellfire. — Daniel Saint

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps ... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. — Dylan Thomas

There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry. — Rupert Brooke

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. — George Orwell

This dark December day inspires him to write / the plainest things in the snow, then walk away. — Chard DeNiord

Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader. — Jeremy Young

Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Where the cheerful children
of unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me there. — Khadija Rupa

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. — Virginia Woolf

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

And tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me ... — Sarah Kane

I can write jingles all day long but the best sensation is your own heart's song! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Whenever life is getting tough hold on.
Don't let it get the best of you stay strong. — Laqueisha Malone

Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other. — William Matthews

Believing in yourself is the best poetry. — Marty Rubin

In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors. — Ymatruz

the best and worst critics I had was in the Marine Corps, If you can share poetry to a bunch of opinionated Marines, you can share with anyone — Vincent Breit

If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats. — Robert Lynd

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose! — Cupideros