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You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet; because poetry is beyond hooks and holes. — M.F. Moonzajer

Give a poet a pen — A. Jarrell Hayes

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. — Philip Larkin

This poem was meant
to be unwritten.
But I am writing it now
and have thereby changed
destiny. — Kamand Kojouri

The moon is my fear.
The sun is my heart afire.
The stars, my love songs. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I was born one thousand times and all the while it was you I met again to only meet again under the thousand stars that divide us and connect us. — Christina Strigas

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. — Emily Dickinson

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question. — Dorianne Laux

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian. — Alysia Harris

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky! — Elizabeth Bishop

Amy King is a true bard. — Tomaz Salamun

Understand the poem not the poet. — Christina Strigas

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't. — Sylvia Plath

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
— Jean Cocteau

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers. — Kirby Wright

I'm burning in despair
Love which you distanced from me
Return once again
I'll forgive you again
Return, Page 19 — Delicious David

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. — Laura Riding

YOUR WORDS ARE MADE OF THE AIR I BREATHE. — Amy King

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds. — Michael Faraday

Another breath, left to translate — Susan Voth

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead. — Federico Garcia Lorca

ONE WORD
One word
- one stone
in a cold river.
One more stone
I'll need many stones
if I'm going to get over. — Olav H. Hauge

Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy — Christina Rossetti

I see the life with your sight,
O" the love; you're my light. — Debasish Mridha

This longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem ... must be you ... — John Geddes

I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page. — Jenim Dibie

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility. — William Butler Yeats

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. — Octavio Paz

One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,
'the way one commits a crime. — Elizabeth Bishop

Never durst a poet touch a pen to write
Until his ink was tempered with love's sighs. — William Shakespeare

The poem is the poet, the dreamer the dream. — Marty Rubin

Poetry is another name for a person's telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one's own perceptions. — M. Fethullah Gulen

Cosmos and its stars; poet and his poetry! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. — David Carradine

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it. — John Ciardi

I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light. — Sherman Kennon

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

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem. — Karen Tei Yamashita

I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them. — Christina Strigas

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three. — Philip Larkin

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

She was not a poet. She was a poem. She was about to snap in half. He thought his own poetry had made her la la la la love him. It was unbearable. — Deborah Levy

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees. — Ged Thompson

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

A Coy Aversion

...a flutter
too shy
to be seen... — Muse

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit — Benny Bellamacina

Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance — Philip Larkin

The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out- — Emily Dickinson

Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody
has held me and no hands have strayed and even
though I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet. — Lenore Kandel

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. — Howard Nemerov

And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night — Archibald MacLeish

Ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it. — W. H. Auden

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem. — Marc-Andre Fleury

I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

You have made me a love poet. — Kamand Kojouri

The true poem is the poet's mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The tragedy of love is in its ending,
the blessing - everything else.

No love ever deserves to end. — Akif Kichloo

I walk with a dual longing
for life and for death. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

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

If you can't be the poet, be the poem. — David Carradine

The only gift is a portion of thyself ... the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

i have no mind/just a series of clicks — Raegan Butcher

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit — Paul Travis