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What I want to know is how you go on when you look aroundand 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 lifei 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
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
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
— Billy Graham
I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'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 bean old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry
There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.
— Roberto Bolano
I prefer the absurdity of writing poemsto the absurdity of not writing poems. — Wislawa Szymborska
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
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
...hatching his poems..
— Susanna Clarke
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 thenand feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they're money. — Anne Sexton
Rod McKuen. One of his poems says somethingabout it not mattering who you love but the important thing is that you love, — Carolyn Brown
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 QuotesTo say goodbye
Isn't a pain
Unless you're never going ... !
(Tee hee) — John Walter Bratton
everything that is scatteredcomes 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
It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, "Madame la Fleurie," Collected Poems I
— Cornelia Funke
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
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
Think think think until you blink
— Ganeshsaidheeraj
Sure, we thought the acresThat 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
I say, flawless poems do not exist.
— Ymatruz
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
— Emily Dickinson
Fear is a hurdle that stops the expression
— Andy Lindley
some winterswill never melt
some summers
will never freeze
and some things will only
... live in poems. — Sanober Khan
I mean you ask menot 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
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
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
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
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
— Robert Penn Warren
I sent my words out onto the windto paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson
What good are wings without the courage to fly?
— Atticus Poetry
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I feel your words on my lipsand 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 walkedthrough her life
heavy
from the
mighty wings
upon her back. — Atticus Poetry