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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night! — Avijeet Das

If poetry is what you live for then do it write. — R.M. Engelhardt

Love is a poem that keeps on writing itself, sweeping us along. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? — Joyce Carol Oates

To die with your boots on while writing poetry is not as glorious as riding a horse down Broadway with a stick of dynamite in your teeth, — Charles Bukowski

Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them. — Morgan Dragonwillow

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry. — John Hegley

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity. — Coco J. Ginger

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover. — Munia Khan

Life can be like a poem that way, with the unexpected appearing in the room, not just on the page. — Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life. — Drew Myron

She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way! — Avijeet Das

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch. — Alice Walker

Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones. — Donald Trump

She asked me the definition of beauty. So I told her name in my reply! — Avijeet Das

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot) — Jeanette Winterson

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you. — Avijeet Das

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin. — Sanober Khan

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas. — Aaron Belz

We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves. — Meggie Royer

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him. — R.M. Engelhardt

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. — Carl Sandburg

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader. — Jenim Dibie

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. — Jenim Dibie

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air. — Jenim Dibie

Be Visionary ... — R.M. Engelhardt

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva

As a writer, a poet, you're not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you. — Jason E. Hodges

Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday. — Jason E. Hodges

We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me! — Avijeet Das

words are a border collie's
worst nightmare. — Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Everywhere the poems open. — Mary Kinzie

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. — Umberto Eco

Though we met at the same station,
we were but passing trains;
on parallel lines,
destined to never meet. — Timothy Joshua

I write because there are things in me that cannot die. — Sanober Khan

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice. — Li-Young Lee

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. — Robert Morgan

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. — Robert Frost

A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise. — Sanober Khan

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is? — Jason E. Hodges

Pay attention, and use your imagination. — R.M. Engelhardt

I'm writing to hold on to you. — Henriikka Tavi

You made a poet fall in love with the world. — Avijeet Das

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive. — C.J. Heck

You can't write poetry on the computer. — Quentin Tarantino

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. — Kathleen Rooney

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. — R.M. Engelhardt

I love the smell of coffee when I wake up in the morning. It gives me the awesome feeling of hope! — Avijeet Das

You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last! — Avijeet Das

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. — Jason E. Hodges

Remember The Poem ... — R.M. Engelhardt

On pristine parchment I draw with my skis calligraphic lines of joy, writing poems of movement. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off. — Kellie Elmore

"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart's desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing — Mariam Kobras

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours. — Zaeema J. Hussain