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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

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. — Agona Apell

I just need you and some sunsets. — Atticus Poetry

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

all my life
i have looked for poems

to elope with. — Sanober Khan

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

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. — Tony Buzan

LOVE
COULD
BE
LABLED
POISON
AND WE'D
DRINK
IT
ANYWAYS. — Atticus Poetry

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

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home. — Dejan Stojanovic

A single poem
is worth a hundred
cozy winter nights
kind words
and healed wounds. — Sanober Khan

and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone. — AVA.

i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full. — AVA.

Almost no one reads poems, almost everyone listens to songs. And if songs were, nowadays, a way to get people to poetry and poetry to people? — Luigina Sgarro

Steep fall to the ground
shattering
like clay pigeons
missed
by bad shots
and unsteady hands. — Jessica Kristie

Intoxicating perfumes, musky body scents mingle... blindfolding you, I orchestrate my symphony. — Avijeet Das

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

you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer is simple.
just be. — AVA.

i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun. — AVA.

Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant. — Dejan Stojanovic

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. — Sylvia Plath

His is a poetry devoid of any poetry. — Pietros Maneos

I was just an option.
Blown easily to pieces
and offered to the sky
by the sweet laced pain
upon your lips. — Jessica Kristie

I'm a man of integrity. My heart is locked and I have given you the only key. — Delano Johnson

How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you. — Phar West Nagle

I cast my eyes out to the sea
And gaze at all eternity.
until forever turns to night.
My eyes then lift to catch starlight. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

- ATTICUS — Atticus Poetry

Put a girl in
moonlight
and tell only truths
and every man
becomes a poet. — Atticus Poetry

2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks. — Jenim Dibie

be good to yourself
you're the only you
you'll ever get — R H Sin

We were strange in love
her and I
too wild to last
too rare to die. — Atticus Poetry

depth and substance.
the two most exquisite qualities.
be it in a poem
or a person. — Sanober Khan

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems. — Donna George Storey

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems. — Norman Lock

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them. — Robert Littell

In greatness, life and death merge. — Dejan Stojanovic

He moves in darkness as it seems to me
Not of woods only and the shade of trees. — Robert Frost

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

the sapphire depth
of my own love...startles
and warms
and wounds my soul. — Sanober Khan

You and I
will be
lost and found
a thousand times
along this
cobbled
road of us. — Atticus Poetry

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. — David Whyte

My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry. — Kate Thompson

stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are. — AVA.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes. — Wanda Lea Brayton

Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are. — Avijeet Das

I let her go
because I knew she could do better
and now she's gone
I wonder
if I should've
just been better. — Atticus Poetry

I've never seen beauty
so devastating
as in the lines
that trace our hope
and fall from the stars. — Jessica Kristie

The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. — Chet Raymo

I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem. — Amy Lowell

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. — Virginia Woolf

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine

I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS. — Atticus Poetry

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

i am a woman
and i am alone,
and i cannot tell
which one of the two
i love being more. — AVA.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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

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

..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.

I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides. — Dejan Stojanovic

I think poetry without metaphor is like husband and wife living in separate bedrooms. — Munia Khan

savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream. — Sanober Khan

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 am changing
and i am loving change. — AVA.

She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. — Atticus Poetry

There's two kinds of women
those you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel

Love what is simple and beautiful.
These are the essentials. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you. — AVA.

Poems reach me, and hold me, and give me pleasure. — Anne Sexton

Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines. — David Mitchell

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand

I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen. — M.J. Abraham

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images. — E.L. Doctorow

Be silent now. Say fewer and fewer praise poems. Let yourself become living poetry. — Rumi

And the stars blinked
as they watched her carefully
jealous of the way she shone. — Atticus Poetry

Where the cheerful children
of unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me there. — Khadija Rupa

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. — Kurt Cobain

Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is. — Atticus Poetry

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

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

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