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In the dark to see, you ass-scratchers! In the dark to see. — Charles Simic

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1) — William Shakespeare

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht

Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I? — Theodore Roethke

I'll put my lips up to your gun and blow, just so you'll know I can be bold once I'm shining bright. — Casey Renee Kiser

I believe the night I've never met
hides one elusive star I need
to divide me between darkness and light — Munia Khan

The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing. — Georgina Anne Taylor

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark. — Erica Jong

Rebuke

Obstinate regression
bringing untold paths
of deep dark foreboding
depression... — Muse

In the east a bank of cloud rises up silently like dark bread. — Margaret Atwood

Death makes its own choices.
Has reasoning an order has a taste ... — Angelo Tsanatelis

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And has the nature of infinity. — William Wordsworth

I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim,
My darkness is composed of him. — Nenia Campbell

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Depths of Friendship
... under fathoms deep
of dark and bitter cold
an eerie oscillation
reverberated brash and bold ... — Muse

the mind is a treasure
trove, an almanac, a tomb. — Beth Morey

Where music thundered let the mind be still,
Where the will triumphed let there be no will,
What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill. — May Sarton

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
— Charles Simic

I want to sleep in the oven
because I just burn in the bed. — Casey Renee Kiser

Does not heed to the dark
With its shimmering light,
Moon quietly bathes the ocean — Somali K Chakrabarti

I was running on the earth,
Slashing primeval winds.
I was running in the world,
Riddled with darkness. — Keishi Ando

Darling, even raindrops try to wipe my teardrops but your thoughts haul out more tears from my liquid eyes and then teardrops replace raindrops ... — Abhishek Rath

She who is in slow motion,
Is glowing red with blood
Which is mine. — Keishi Ando

But mostly I just stand in the dark field,
in the middle of the world, breathing — Mary Oliver

Face in the Sun with the dark circles of beautiful nights the mouths of tigers. — Gwen Calvo

And then,
There was a love
Shining so bright,
That even the darkest part
Of our hearts
Felt the warmth — Bryonie Wise

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration. — Carl Sandburg

Have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ... — John Geddes

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field ... — John Geddes

Who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes ... ? — John Geddes

So it became,
the law of universe,
to have the,
profoundest,
of the words,
cloaked in the,
darkest of the masks. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood
... — John Geddes

All of my insecurities
shine in the dark. — Lori Jenessa Nelson

Oh, precious losing streak,
you're too cute for your own good.
I try to laugh about it
but my face is made of wood. — Casey Renee Kiser

He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark. — Danabelle Gutierrez

In my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain ... — John Geddes

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light. — Garth Von Buchholz

Hey, baby. You got a light? I've got some dark. — Tarin Towers

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. — Pink

We say God and the imagination are one ...
How high that highest candle lights the dark. — Wallace Stevens

Night never needs a shade
but it requires to fade
into the grin of twinkling stars
where light is just a glint of scars — Munia Khan

You touched my flawed life so gently with love
burning upward in dark steady flame
burning me, burning me into healing. — Christy Brown

I could be that tenebrous enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration. — Moonshine Noire

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall ... and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades. — Brandi L. Bates

The dark, cold grasp you took on me, has tangled me completely — Victoria Manning

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night. — Ursula K. Le Guin

With a ring around the rosary
And a pocket full of crosses
Ashes to ashes
They'll all fall down — Matthew Fitzpatrick

I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark
So please do not close this book on me. — Shel Silverstein

Dark and pregnant clouds gave birth and fist-sized stones of hail hammered the earth. — Michael R. Fletcher

Only tears can hear the sound of pain
when warm blood reddens discolored stain — Munia Khan

A hallowed frequency within
That, even in your darkest hour,
You can always turn to. — Scott Hastie

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

Stars are out and there is sea
enough beneath the glistening earth
to bear me toward the future
which is not so dark. I see. — Frank O'Hara

There
will always
a glimmer
in those
who have been
through the dark. — Atticus Poetry

The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness. — Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly. — Phar West Nagle

All I know is a door into the dark — Seamus Heaney

People Die ...
Beauty Fades ...
Love Changes ...
And You Will Always Be Alone — L.J.Smith

The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become. — Wallace Stevens

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. — Rick Springfield

I can see myself before myself
A being through dark scenery. — Dejan Stojanovic

In your sky, you are the brightest star.
Without you light, it's dark like tar.
So love yourself to enlighten others. — Debasish Mridha

For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing.
Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon. — T.R. Hummer

Dark is the world's night without you my love, — Pablo Neruda

Linear's defeated form
The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer — Stella Coulson

The light too brief to finish any work
the woman seeks to amplify the dark — Leatha Kendrick

Poetry is more than just art, it's like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark. — Delano Johnson

Moonlight and high wind.
Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea. — Li-Young Lee

Dark be not dark but some other desire — Andrew Zawacki

The prettiest girls shine brightest in the dark. — Atticus Poetry

Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out. — Casey Renee Kiser

Poetry is the dark side of the moon, — Charles Wright

When my desire
grows too fierce
I wear my bed clothes
inside out,
dark as the night's rough husk. — Ono No Komachi

A passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna ... — John Geddes

The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. — Chet Raymo

There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. "I come to you as a man unfinished. — Kresley Cole

for we all have
our own

twilights
and mists
and abysses

to return to. — Sanober Khan

The ring comes whenever it will
because it's dark
where the mountains mother
and being stuck in one spot
is something to ring bells about — Fanny Howe

I hear they make greeting cards now
to thank your therapist ... for NOTHING — Casey Renee Kiser

forge forever on
tho' dark death rewards us all
forge forever on — Kurt Brindley

There's a book of poetry
in the lines of my hands
that no one wants to read — Holly Schindler

A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark — Criss Jami