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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

all my life
i have looked for poems

to elope with. — 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

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed

This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.
only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm. — Sanober Khan

She sat in her perfect house,
with her perfect husband,
wishing that her perfect life
would end. — Atticus Poetry

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

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

moonlight disappears down the hills
mountains vanish into fog
and i vanish into poetry. — Sanober Khan

Today I bumped into you again. You seemed like that flower long forgotten in the old diary. — Avijeet Das

my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words. — Sanober Khan

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

I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it. — Mina Loy

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people. — Robert Graves

the hope is small
but it is everything. — AVA.

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie
True Poems flee - — Emily Dickinson

There's a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage. — Kristen Henderson

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

give me
a pillow of strong
ever-dependable shoulders
that i can bury my head in. — Sanober Khan

There
will always
a glimmer
in those
who have been
through the dark. — Atticus Poetry

I don't write poems
to melt your heart.
I write them,
so our hearts
can melt together. — Subhan Zein

Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:
after death
how will I know my love was true,
this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity? — Phan Ming Yen

Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms. — Atticus Poetry

Don't be afraid of poetry. — Clifton Fadiman

Break my heart and you will find yourself inside. — Atticus Poetry

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity. — Dejan Stojanovic

the ocean mist
engulfs me, like a lifetime's
friendship honored. — Sanober Khan

i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thing
in between my fingertips. — AVA.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. — Anne Stevenson

i am permanently
tanned
in the summer of poetry. — Sanober Khan

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. — Cate Marvin

More or Less Love Poems #11:
No babe
We'd never
Swing together but
the syncopation
would be something wild — Diane Di Prima

Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly. — Phar West Nagle

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts. — Confucius

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you". — Jenim Dibie

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.

i let you love me.
i let you take care of me.
i let you do things to me
no one was allowed to do before. — AVA.

She had just enough madness to make her interesting — Atticus Poetry

Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant. — Hugh Kenner

Of everything
I have ever endured,

Y
O
U

are
My Favourite Tragedy. — Meraaqi

I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out. — Meraaqi

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril — Andrew Motion

Love her but leave her wild — Atticus Poetry

Birthing hope from the madness
that perches on the fence
of our once perfect
dreams. — Jessica Kristie

Poems come from incomplete knowledge. — Diane Wakoski

show me all the parts of you
that you do not love
so i know where to begin. — AVA.

We are all born free
and spend a lifetime
becoming slaves
to our own
false truths. — Atticus Poetry

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. — John Fowles

...you hold a poem
that functions half as personal
note and half as telescope
to the heights
awaiting us all. — Kristen Henderson

And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd. — Dejan Stojanovic

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands. — Bob Dylan

Traveling down a road of self-destruction
With no room for any reconstruction — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

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

Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me

to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song. — Sanober Khan

She walked
through her life
heavy
from the
mighty wings
upon her back. — Atticus Poetry

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 then
and feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they're money. — Anne Sexton

poems open doors;
that don't even exist. — Basith

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

I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine — Donald Hall

I sent my words out onto the wind
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson

OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S POEMS TO GET AN INVITE ~ — Amy King

What good are wings without the courage to fly? — Atticus Poetry

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

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

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

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay. — AVA.

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

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

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

She was cool -
the whole world
seemed
to spin around her
in smooth jazz. — Atticus Poetry

I say, flawless poems do not exist. — Ymatruz

Your love intoxicates me into an intoxication of intoxicating intoxication. — Avijeet Das

What
a strange
world.
We
trade our days
for things. — Atticus Poetry

i act harder than i am.
i am softer than i look. — AVA.

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

no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first,
and you will always be in love. — AVA.

To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers

The attention was flattering. For the first five minutes. Now I know how poems feel. — Margaret Edson

Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems. — Naomi Shihab Nye

I exaggerate
There is a lie in my truth
Look! My soul is blue — A.A. Patawaran

The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine. — Jenim Dibie

Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest memories. — John Ritter

We are made of all those who have built and broken us. — Atticus Poetry

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

I need to work on me.
The me
without you. — Jessica Kristie

It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart — Atticus Poetry

Poems are difficult to silence. — Stephen Greenblatt

everything that is scattered
comes together in words

everything that is lost
comes back in poetry. — Sanober Khan

We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms. — Kevin Fuller

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

things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me. — AVA.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. — Carol Ann Duffy

Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds. — Sanober Khan

you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me. — AVA.

The only happy people in the world
are those who do not have to write long poems — John Berryman

Sure, we thought the acres
That we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts — Sherman Alexie

I am bothered by poems I don't understand. — Joyce Rachelle

Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers. — China Cancio

Come, my darling,
it is never too late
to begin
our love again. — Atticus Poetry