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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night! — Avijeet Das

Love doesn't make you a poet; it makes you poetry. — Yarro Rai

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. — Agona Apell

She lives the poetry she cannot write — Larry Wilde

i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears. — Sanober Khan

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

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

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. — Vanessa M Chattman

She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English. — Alice Walker

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

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. — Julian Barnes

you are
so delicious
to my poetic side. — Sanober Khan

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

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

Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore. — Edwin Morgan

we talk of plans that are going to happen.
we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.

there is a sort of comfort in that. — AVA.

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity. — Coco J. Ginger

As long as music survives, poetry will never die. — Michael Bassey Johnson

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover. — Munia Khan

Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. — Clive James

She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way! — Avijeet Das

A man does not become a real man by showing his physical domination over women. A man becomes a real man by loving, respecting and protecting women. — Avijeet Das

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry keeps me
in a highly drunken state
of divinity. — Sanober Khan

may
this poetry
be the home
you will someday
come back to. — Sanober Khan

Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are. — Avijeet Das

Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean. — A.D. Posey

All mothers breed dead children. — Mie Hansson

As a writer, a poet, you're not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you. — Jason E. Hodges

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him. — R.M. Engelhardt

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights. — Jenim Dibie

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart. — Aberjhani

Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday. — Jason E. Hodges

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.' — Sonia Sanchez

Poems can get
sleepless too

and become

the loneliest thing
in the universe. — Sanober Khan

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader. — Jenim Dibie

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton — W. H. Auden

We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me! — Avijeet Das

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. — Robert Morgan

I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists. — Sunny

some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. — Sanober Khan

poetry. i am not writing it.
(make way for me please)
it is my skin. dripping with light. — Sanober Khan

And everyone wants to read the poem
we're afraid to write. — Kelli Russell Agodon

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them — George Bernard Shaw

There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions. — Woodrow Wilson

I love the smell of coffee when I wake up in the morning. It gives me the awesome feeling of hope! — Avijeet Das

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

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

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Isolation filled with loud silence is a writer's paradise. I wonder how far north toward the Mediterranean must I travel to get there. — Terry A. O'Neal

I write because there are things in me that cannot die. — Sanober Khan

i write
because

it is
the only way

i can
reach you. — Sanober Khan

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

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is? — Jason E. Hodges

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

When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. "& I love Wordplay — Elijah Cainaan

You made a poet fall in love with the world. — Avijeet Das

Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips. — Jennifer Webb

Everywhere the poems open. — Mary Kinzie

all the words
all the poems
know
my warm, soft spots. — Sanober Khan

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin. — Sanober Khan

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

How....will I ever truly depict you?
You're perfect, my writing isn't. — Sanober Khan

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. — Jason E. Hodges

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. — Marguerite Young

All writers are manipulative liars.
Jack O. Savage, The Poet — Hunter S. Jones

We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm. — Sanober Khan

I didn't want to sing.
I wanted to be music. — Jenim Dibie

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. — Grace Paley

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic
with divine creatures
who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us — Charles Bukowski

The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off. — Kellie Elmore

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours. — Zaeema J. Hussain

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together. — Brenda Sutton Rose

She asked me the definition of beauty. So I told her name in my reply! — Avijeet Das

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you. — Avijeet Das