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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

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it. — Amy Lowell

May, and after a rainy spring
We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons. — Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1) — William Shakespeare

Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist. — Kellie Elmore

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry. — Sean O Faolain

To them, eternal life begins
And God Himself shall wipe away all tears. — Timothy Salter

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go. — Theodore Roethke

all my life
i have looked for poems

to elope with. — Sanober Khan

and the afterglow...
of your gaze...is the only
sweater that I need. — 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

concept: me, wandering through the morning fog of a flowery hillside. the world is still and silent and calm — L.J. Buchanan

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. — Jenny Eclair

She would remain forever young, forever noble, forever his blessedness, and not all the poetry in the world could express his devotion to her. — Sylvain Reynard

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ... — Amy Lowell

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey

We do not live in a world of things
but among benedictions given
and--do you know what I'm saying?--received. — Irving Feldman

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing. — Kevin Powers

Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again! — Delano Johnson

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. — Procopius Of Caesarea

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. — Anatole Broyard

Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals ... — Sarah Gorham

Oh dear sunday, I want to sleep in your arms and have fun day. — Santosh Kalwar

In the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief. — Suheir Hammad

Men consort in camp and town
But the poet dwells alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

From my chair i can see the street and it seems depressing — Brandon Scott Gorrell

The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

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

Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse

I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper. — Nicole Lyons

Trust is when we plummet into the depths of an abyss and reach out for each other's hands.
-Amaderan Poetry, various authors — Marie Lu

World of harmony and peace
I see it just over there
Right there. — Ilchi Lee

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski

There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it. — Jorge Luis Borges

Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. — Colson Whitehead

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. — Dejan Stojanovic

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G.H. Hardy

Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words. — Debasish Mridha

Words ... To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order. — Seamus Heaney

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. — Robert Morgan

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. — Muriel Rukeyser

concept: we whisper little kindnesses into the night, sending out love to no one in particular and everyone at once. — L.J. Buchanan

Friday night's alright for fighting
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Black drinks the sun and draws all colours into it.
I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,
and stain me with the intensity of black. — Robert Graves

Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ... — Brandi L. Bates

Prayer is a many fingered
and kaleidoscopic thing - it folds
and unfolds inside of you. It enters
the many rooms you cannot enter. — Cecilia Llompart

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose. — Basil Bunting

No man has the courage to approach her or initiate questions she herself rise, for all men fear a fascist and she can very well be a fascist's wife. — Mie Hansson

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

Dreams are the poetry of life to be written with love and actions. — Debasish Mridha

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

But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. — Wislawa Szymborska

If I began to draw
myself away from you

we'd still be like
two mixed colors of paint
impossible to separate. — Sanober Khan

The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. — Carl Sandburg

Because my life without you would be
a place of parched and broken trees ... — Mary Oliver

Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today. — Delano Johnson

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 want to tie one thousand balloons around my neck
and float up
while slowly dying of happiness. — Matthew Donahoo

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success. — Babette Deutsch

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin
a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. — Craig Johnson

The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome? — John Milton

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

I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini

There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic

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.

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

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker

You smile and draw me near and whisper, "Do as dreamers do."
I lean to you and whisper in your ear, "I cannot dream tonight my Dear. For it is you. — Shaun Hick

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. — Zona Gale

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. — Rita Dove

If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

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

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis. — Amiri Baraka

Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth. — Debasish Mridha

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. — Toi Derricotte

God is busy and has no time for you. — Dejan Stojanovic

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

I've learned to lick
my own foul wounds
and prize the taste of ache. — Chila Woychik

How they had dreamed together, he and she ... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now — Beth Morey

The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake

Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth. — Amit Ray

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance. — Ada Leverson

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. — Derek Walcott

Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality. — Friedrich Schiller

True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship. — Robert Graves

And when you spoke to me, I did not know
That to my life's high altar came its priest. — Sara Teasdale

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do. — Luke Treadaway

Everything was going to kill you, poetry as well, and the last was the most deadly. — Brian Castro

When a boy I could never bear to read any Poetry whatever without disgust and reluctance," he said.32 He — Benita Eisler