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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

Neither pathway is correct. — Azaam Yahoo

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

With'n these ribs is / a City of Luminous / all thanks t'you. — Evy Zen

A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation. — Charles Olson

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

Your life is a poetry with purpose. — Debasish Mridha

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

No one knows here, that the Death is actually, Actually to Born. — Samar Sudha

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

Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic

The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media, I said, meaninglessly. — Ben Lerner

Yoga is an exact science in the form of poetry when we measure the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain. — Amit Ray

This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word. — Odysseus Elytis

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

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell

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

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. — Walter Savage Landor

The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even. — Carolyn Forche

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. — Charles Dudley Warner

In poetry if the emotion is lacking, everything is lacking. — Marty Rubin

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

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. — Stephen Spender

The points are not the point; the point is poetry. — Allan Wolf

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. — Amy Clampitt

Poetry is an orphan of silence. — Charles Simic

Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart — Kristi Maxwell

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. — Jean Cocteau

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

Poetry is the dark side of the moon, — Charles Wright

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table. — Yvor Winters

There is no born lover,
There is no born Don Juan,
For we are all lovers. — Dejan Stojanovic

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money — Robert Graves

Every single soul is a poem. — Michael Franti

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. — Sarah Kay

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

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. — Tracy K. Smith

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

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

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

Every poem is unique to each person who reads it. — Salil Jha

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

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation. — Joseph Brodsky

Romance is the poetry of literature. — Suzanne Curchod

But sometimes a kiss is not a kiss is not a kiss. Sometimes it's a poetry. — Julie Buxbaum

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. — John Masefield

Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry. — Vicente Aleixandre

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. — Caroline Kennedy

This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame. — Atarah L. Poling

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

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

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

The Sun is so magnificent how God created it — Martellis Thurmand

Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world. — Stephanie Hemphill

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

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

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

Within my palm there is a world, a world as delicate as a bubble! — Preeth Nambiar

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

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku. — Frank Horvat

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all. — Stephen Fry

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

At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times,
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on. — Soar

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written. — George Orwell

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

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. — William Blake

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

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

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

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

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

[Wine is] poetry in a bottle. — Clifton Fadiman

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. — Gyorgy Ligeti

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie

The world is a navy in an empty ocean. — Dejan Stojanovic

Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?
Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy? — Danabelle Gutierrez

Unconditional love is furnished by many 4 legged creatures, but chiefly by human kinds best friend DOG! — Ladee Basset

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

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. — Samuel Johnson

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight ... every word is war. — Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

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

Discovery's friend is creativity — Phillip Gary Smith

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

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality. — Martin Carter

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz

The history of man is a must read poetry. — Lailah Gifty Akita