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