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Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor

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

Poetry doesn't pay. But I need it. And so do you. — Cory Basil

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures. — Stephen King

all my life
i have looked for poems

to elope with. — Sanober Khan

I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. — Marc Norman

Poetry is the imitation of the most important aspect of human existence life and that's what make's it so beautiful and necessary. — Nicolas Saperstein

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. — T. S. Eliot

Let your life be a vivacious poetry of love, compassion, kindness, and beauty. — Debasish Mridha

Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love... — Soar

In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides — Anne Bronte

Poetry was the processing of my thoughts until the slag of justification fell away and I was left with the cold steel truths of life. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death — Ruben Dario

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world. — Sanober Khan

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

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into. — Jhene Aiko

Let your poetry be the light and see the true beauty of your words bloom into life, love, and inspiration. — Delano Johnson

But I hope you don't feel the hurt as much as I did. You are too weak and fragile to stand that ache.

Remember, you always will be. — Khadija Rupa

All I ever really wanted to do was arouse souls through my writing and enjoy my journey to becoming one with myself and with the world. — Terry A. O'Neal

Some people come into our lives and make us fall in love with our self! — Avijeet Das

Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside. — Eeva Lancaster

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

I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind. — Charlotte Eriksson

You were the hardest year of my life and I've never been so happy. What does that say about me? — Charlotte Eriksson

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death. — Santosh Kalwar

Life is a series of meetings and separations. — Santosh Kalwar

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde

Poetry is not the most important thing in life ... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. — Dylan Thomas

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

If Erik existed and lived life in despair,
We wish him to know we are here and we care. — E.A. Bucchianeri

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her. — Edith Wharton

I'd gladly trade the world
And all of its gold,
To see you safe in this fragile life. — Maddy Kobar

Pay attention, and use your imagination. — R.M. Engelhardt

Medicine is my life, but literature is my mistress, and mysteries and poetry are my drugs of choice. — John A. Vanek

We inhale life and exhale words. that's just what writers' do
— Terry A. O'Neal

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

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

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. — Seamus Heaney

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He lights the violin and his mouth fills with fireflies. — Gwen Calvo

Everyone's life is a poetry rhymed with sweet and bitter words, rhythmed with moments. — Robert Ahaness

When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me. — Christina Strigas

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. — William Faulkner

Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity.
Go beyond your tangled thoughts and
find the splendor of paradise. — Rumi

You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last! — Avijeet Das

There is still peace left in the world,
and only those with beauty in their soul,
care enough to be it. — Jenim Dibie

Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die — Leonard Cohen

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. — R.M. Engelhardt

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them. — Kathleen Norris

We live longer
but less precisely
and in shorter sentences. — Wislawa Szymborska

The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger. — R.L.S.

I am the author of my Life and Lovestory,
I wrote it in poetry — Patrick Cruz

There's a path from me to you
I'm constantly looking for,
so I try to keep clear and still
as water does with the moon. — Rumi

Some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight. — Charles Bukowski

The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life-
Everything has a natural healing
process. — Sanober Khan

I grow into my death.
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is green.
Nothing is all. — Mark Strand

Unless you are silent, you will not
know your urgent heart, how it beats
between the thin skin of yes and no. — Drew Myron

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

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

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre. — Terry A. O'Neal

Life is a poem
just waiting to be written,
lift your pen and speak. — Susie Clevenger

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees. — Ged Thompson

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Charge like a herd of buffalo through the fire and seek your truth. Be your own revolution. — Christopher Josephs

To enjoy the joy in life, always be drunk with love and poetry. — Debasish Mridha

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life. — Eavan Boland

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

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

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

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful! — Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry. — Phil Plait

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. — Mary Oliver

Air goes in and out
of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart
brain - and so I am — Matthew Quick

What is this life so full of care,
We don't have time to stand and stare. — W.H. Davies

The thing I've learned writing my book is that everyone has the potential to be a poet, and all of our lives are epic. — Jonathan Heatt

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

Don't strive to sound poetic. Strive to sound genuine in your writing and you will find poetry in the most mundane things in life. — Bobby Hundley

I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world. — Shahin Najafi

The Scorpion?
The Grasshopper?
Which way will she go? — E.A. Bucchianeri

Let your heart dance with pen and paper
Now fill the paper with dancing letters. — Debasish Mridha

I came to you tardy and late
as I usually do to the better things in my life — Christy Brown

I see the beauty in you, and the darkness. Both are brilliant. — Christina Strigas

I am a series of small victories and large defeats. — Charles Bukowski

At first first nothing will happen to us
and later on
it will happen to us again. — Leonard Cohen

There are so many days
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails. — Charles Bukowski

You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds. — Cat Alonso

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.
So be passionate and write a great story. — Debasish Mridha

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream. — Ernest Dowson