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

someday i will walk
under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. —
Sanober Khan

If I began to draw
myself away from you
we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. —
Sanober Khan

But all of a sudden they're poets, right, like that's all it takes - being in love. —
David Sedaris

She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'. —
Kamand Kojouri

the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close
and all will be
right again
in the world. —
Sanober Khan

Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't. —
Sanober Khan

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. —
Robert Frost

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! —
Phyllis Bottome

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. —
Carl Sandburg

Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale. —
R.J. Craddock

We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts. —
Eilis Flynn

Traveling down a road of self-destruction
With no room for any reconstruction —
Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. —
Percy Bysshe Shelley

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you". —
Jenim Dibie

i write
because
it is
the only way
i can
reach you. —
Sanober Khan

Your words...
I hold them deep
like ancient skins
hold wrinkles. —
Sanober Khan

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. —
Brandi L. Bates

i wanted to destroy you.
you are mine to ruin.
something so beautiful
should only exist for me. —
AVA.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. —
Dejan Stojanovic

I cannot love your weeping poets ... —
Vita Sackville-West

Words are fossilized butterfly wings,
pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums. —
Jeremiah Walton

i know it all ends the same,
but i was interested in seeing
how you would break my heart. —
AVA.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,
Painter or plumber or never-do-well,
Do me a favor and shut your face -
Poets alone should kiss and tell. —
Dorothy Parker

There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. —
Robert Graves

Love in its first bloom, all the poets said, was full of aching and impatience. So then was I. And so then was he. —
Leanna Renee Hieber

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. —
R.H. Blyth

He is half my soul, as the poets say. —
Madeline Miller

That is why they have poets - to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it. —
Sarah Ruhl

your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are waking up from. —
Sanober Khan

I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. —
William Empson