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What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson

Girls like poems better than dead dragons and magic swords, — Peter S. Beagle

Love and memory and thought and dream ~
My favorite poems have never been written in words. — Kij Johnson

all my life
i have looked for poems

to elope with. — Sanober Khan

When the poems don't come, don't open the vodka. — Clementine Von Radics

I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe. — Erica Jong

She sat in her perfect house,
with her perfect husband,
wishing that her perfect life
would end. — Atticus Poetry

People can put their best poems straight onto the web. — Roger McGough

Force of Life

Defining the intention
of our heart's desire
we discover
the Force of Life — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems. — Jonathan Galassi

Pushkin wrote Turkish poems and he was never in Turkey. — Ilya Ilf

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. — Billy Graham

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. — John Dryden

I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it. — Mina Loy

One cannot write poems about trees when the forest is full of police. — Bertolt Brecht

There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter. — Roberto Bolano

the hope is small
but it is everything. — AVA.

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie
True Poems flee - — Emily Dickinson

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska

Each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature. — May Sarton

Home will always be where comfort is, even if that comfort is pain — Jackson Saint-Louis

Come, my darling,
it is never too late
to begin
our love again. — Atticus Poetry

Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds. — Sanober Khan

The world, finally, tries to rob us in lots of ways. I like poems to do a bit of taking back for us. — Terry Blackhawk

Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers. — China Cancio

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. — Mary Oliver

...hatching his poems.. — Susanna Clarke

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay. — AVA.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. — Seamus Heaney

I tell it stories now and then
and feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they're money. — Anne Sexton

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems. — David Almond

Rod McKuen. One of his poems says something
about it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love, — Carolyn Brown

Caution: Poems are sweeter than chocolates. — Vikrmn

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring. — Rumi

Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations. — Charles Ghigna

Leaving Verses Poems Quotes
To say goodbye
Isn't a pain
Unless you're never going ... !
(Tee hee) — John Walter Bratton

everything that is scattered
comes together in words

everything that is lost
comes back in poetry. — Sanober Khan

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. — Laurence Housman

The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel. — Margaret Edson

The bag I wanted was beyond reason - something to hold my poems, twice as big as the universe and it must be androgynous. — Eileen Myles

things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me. — AVA.

It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, "Madame la Fleurie," Collected Poems I — Cornelia Funke

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up. — John Fuller

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. — Carol Ann Duffy

I am bothered by poems I don't understand. — Joyce Rachelle

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell

If I knew where poems came from, I'd go there. — Michael Langley

you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me. — AVA.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else. — Mary Oliver

There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer

The only happy people in the world
are those who do not have to write long poems — John Berryman

Think think think until you blink — Ganeshsaidheeraj

Sure, we thought the acres
That we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts — Sherman Alexie

What
a strange
world.
We
trade our days
for things. — Atticus Poetry

They compose poems to their knives. — Frank Herbert

Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul. — Pietros Maneos

She was cool -
the whole world
seemed
to spin around her
in smooth jazz. — Atticus Poetry

I say, flawless poems do not exist. — Ymatruz

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world. — Frances Mayes

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. — Emily Dickinson

Your love intoxicates me into an intoxication of intoxicating intoxication. — Avijeet Das

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden

I'm very clever
at
hiding poems
perhaps more
clever than I
am
at
writing
them. — Charles Bukowski

Fear is a hurdle that stops the expression — Andy Lindley

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems. — Sanober Khan

I mean you ask me
not to fall in love with you
and then you go write poems
with your tongue
and draw constellations
in my freckles. — Clementine Von Radics

i act harder than i am.
i am softer than i look. — AVA.

There are anonymous poems and poets without poems. — Dejan Stojanovic

..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get. — Meraaqi

no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first,
and you will always be in love. — AVA.

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers

i do not know how to live tepidly.
i was never built to fit in.
i live by my soul
and my soul is insane. — AVA.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them. — Patti Smith

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them. — Hans Christian Andersen

OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S POEMS TO GET AN INVITE ~ — Amy King

Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts. — Maia Wojciechowska

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels. — Natalie Goldberg

Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish. — Nayyirah Waheed

When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me — Stanley Victor Paskavich

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out." — Denise Duhamel

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends. — Robert Bly

I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. — Robert Penn Warren

I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine — Donald Hall

The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a lot of voice and character. — Robert Morgan

I sent my words out onto the wind
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson

poems open doors;
that don't even exist. — Basith

The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. — W. H. Auden

What good are wings without the courage to fly? — Atticus Poetry

She gave me hugs that were like oxygen to a dying man and uplifted my soul! — Avijeet Das

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

I feel your words on my lips
and feel your mood in my hips — Maquita Donyel Irvin

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their own. — Starhawk

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure. — Denise Duhamel

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing. — Patti Smith

She walked
through her life
heavy
from the
mighty wings
upon her back. — Atticus Poetry