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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

Listen to presences inside poems,
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises. — Rumi

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

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. — Henry Ward Beecher

He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant. — Len Jenkin

moonlight disappears down the hills
mountains vanish into fog
and i vanish into poetry. — Sanober Khan

I don't know why I didn't carry around pictures and poems all the time before I came here. — Ally Condie

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

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then. — Edward Hirsch

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

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up. — Peleg Top

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

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems. — Donald Hall

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address. — Matthea Harvey

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 poems are all wrong.
It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper.
And sometimes gold can stay. — Kami Garcia

Some poems are like the Centaurs
a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. — Sylvia Plath

Careful.
The fall is quick,
steep,
and permanent. — Jessica Kristie

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems. — Edward Hirsch

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. — Simon Armitage

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German. — Paul Celan

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different. — Octavio Paz

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.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13. — Kevin Powers

I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths. — Shakira

...you hold a poem
that functions half as personal
note and half as telescope
to the heights
awaiting us all. — Kristen Henderson

She blushed and I smiled when we saw the Magpie look at us while we kissed below the Acacia tree! — Avijeet Das

Poems are not for explaining," she said, her tone as bored and faintly scornful as his. "They are for pretty girls to read aloud. Everyone knows that. — Emily Horner

Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me

to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song. — Sanober Khan

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. — Cate Marvin

You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys. — Jenim Dibie

I would write poems and think up melodies to them later. — Jennette McCurdy

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind. — Edward Hirsch

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. — Andrew Motion

I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out. — Meraaqi

I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book. — Hilary Duff

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril — Andrew Motion

Bill Knott's poems are ... rhetorical fluff ... and fake. — Ron Loewinsohn

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. — Lena Dunham

The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions. — Mark Strand

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have been transcribing those poems and considering how lucky we are to live longer than flowers, even if not much happens to us. — Kate Bernheimer

We are all born free
and spend a lifetime
becoming slaves
to our own
false truths. — Atticus Poetry

Only to close these eyes
to sleep in the lap of love
and stay there forever. — Khadija Rupa

Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. — Niki De St. Phalle

Poems ... are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped - what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again, — Jane Hirshfield

Break my heart and you will find yourself inside. — Atticus Poetry

And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd. — Dejan Stojanovic

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will. — Horace

Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems. — Karl Shapiro

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen. — M.F. Moonzajer

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. — Irving Layton

I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head. — Haley Pullos

Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror. — Pietros Maneos

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. — Zubin Mehta

Mary Oliver: "...Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" ("The Summer Day", New and Selected Poems, 1992) — Bonnie Zieman

Some of the best love poems have been written by monks and nuns ... — John Geddes

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. — John Barton

The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine. — Jenim Dibie

We are made of all those who have built and broken us. — Atticus Poetry

So many poems you go into and come up empty. — Maxine Kumin

I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender. — Marvin Bell

I believe in family values and following your dreams. — JoAnne Myers

They are both spectacular,
Life and death. — Dejan Stojanovic

The poems and stories we shared with each other could mean what we wanted them to mean. We could choose our own path together. — Ally Condie

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.

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

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

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

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