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They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming. — Dejan Stojanovic

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of. — Shannon L. Alder

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The universe is God's son. — Dejan Stojanovic

A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account. — Sanober Khan

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel De Montaigne

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. — Carolyn Kizer

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. — James Broughton

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Cities are built out of poet's dreams. — Marty Rubin

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

Be a poet in action as well as in words. — Marty Rubin

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau

The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out- — Emily Dickinson

A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise. — Sanober Khan

I said, the poets are there
I hear them singing and lying
around their round table
and around me still. — Anne Sexton

The world will not be saved by poets or poetry. — Marty Rubin

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty ... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189) — Mev Puleo

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets. — Horace

a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan

Life is only a flicker of melted ice. — Dejan Stojanovic

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley

God is a cloud from which rain fell. — Dejan Stojanovic

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me. — Dejan Stojanovic

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. — Aberjhani

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. — K.J. Parker

let me die
from having being drunk on
indigo skies, my liver...
overflowing with stars. — Sanober Khan

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong

Sunbathe from within. — Dejan Stojanovic

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height. — Dejan Stojanovic

I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. — William Empson

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell

your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are waking up from. — Sanober Khan

That is why they have poets - to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it. — Sarah Ruhl

Chance is your god
Though you're falling free you will land hard — Criss Jami

As far as me and fame, from my creations I'll be dead and famous long before I know it. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. — Brandi L. Bates

That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure. — David McDonald

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets ... — William Jones

Poets and intellectuals ... are the ones the tyrants go after first. — Frederick Smock

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions. — Dejan Stojanovic

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit. — Dejan Stojanovic

the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close

and all will be
right again
in the world. — Sanober Khan

How does one say something new and not retell? — Dejan Stojanovic

There were poets before Homer. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

May our twilights mix together
like breath and breathlessness. — Sanober Khan

A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

Poetry has saved me on occasions when people couldn't. — Sanober Khan

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

If I began to draw
myself away from you

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

Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value. — Major Jackson

He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

someday i will walk
under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. — Sanober Khan

They grew; they did not talk about growing. — Dejan Stojanovic

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

We must listen to poets. — Gaston Bachelard

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. — Anne Stevenson

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? — Dejan Stojanovic

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle. — Dejan Stojanovic

And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. — Carl Sandburg

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave. — Edward Hirsch

Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds. — Sanober Khan

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone. — T. Grassan

But as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry. — Charles Bukowski

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river. — William Stafford

A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. — Salman Rushdie

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost

The poet must be more useful than any other member if his tribe. — Comte De Lautreamont