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The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The master answered Change what you see. — Louise Gluck

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

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it. — Amy Lowell

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry. — Vijay Seshadri

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry. — Felix Dennis

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

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long. — Angela Sarafyan

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. — Dorianne Laux

I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out of time. — Maya Angelou

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry. — Audre Lorde

As for my feet, the little feet
You used to call so pretty,
There's one, I know, in Bedford Row,
The t'other's in the City. — Thomas Hood

Poetry is language against which you have no defenses. — David Whyte

A thousand lifetimes I'd exchange if only I could have one with you. — Christina Strigas

She likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe — Charles Bukowski

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

I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands. — Trista Mateer

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. — Charles Baudelaire

But when you kiss me there's a spark, and I can't remember I'm only food to be consumed like an apple and not loved like a woman. — Phar West Nagle

Do not eat of this world,
she warned as I left,
unless you are willing to suffer. — Justen Ahren

We do not live in a world of things
but among benedictions given
and--do you know what I'm saying?--received. — Irving Feldman

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown

Over the water of time I call to you
In a language I do not know. — Ellen S. Jaffe

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

and you taste / of the memory of god abandoned. — Mikl Paul

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. — Seth Godin

Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve. — Santosh Kalwar

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently
we have had our difficulties and there are many things
I want to ask you. — Richard Siken

You take my breath away,
Even if you are miles away — Patrick Cruz

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

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

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My emotions have already spilled out on a canvas; I need you my king, to rescue me from the madness! — Delano Johnson

Dark is the world's night without you my love, — Pablo Neruda

You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.

This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness. — Kristen Henderson

When someone you know you love so much but treat you dishonorably what can you do? — Martellis Thurmand

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know. — Mark Doty

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney

Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time — Constantinos P. Cavafis

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football. — Robert Frost

To make a film you have to dream a film ... that's true of poetry as well. — Frank Bidart

How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps. — Paul Monette

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out. — Andrea Gibson

You will find meaning in life
only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed.
It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced ... — Osho

You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up the
poet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind,
To everyone, I pray.
And may I ask you how you find
Yourself, dear Lord, today? — John B. Tabb

You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow — Amy Lowell

You write so beautifully
the inside of your mind must be a terrible place — Unknown

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

The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly. — Jenim Dibie

You'd think hindsight would do us some good
But all it does sometimes
Is add glass to the kaleidoscope — J.D. Estrada

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise — Thomas Dekker

Life is as long as you live it. — Lashauna D. Hinton

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees. — Alfred Austin

It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength. — Tanya R. Liverman

When I met you, you were so beautiful, the air around you vibrated with color ... — John Geddes

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery. — Anne Sexton

Poetry is priceless ... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor. — Marie Ponsot

YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING. — Amy King

I stay away from weed because it's a gateway drug. I like heroine, you're not going anywhere from there. — Atticus

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

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri

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

If you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space! — Beryl Broekman

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

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

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

Against Self-Pity
It gets you nowhere but deeper into
your own shit
pure misery a luxury
one never learns to enjoy. — Rita Dove

You are the language
so universal
you are forgotten

Be my linguist

Turn me
into your words. — Banoo Zan

Everything was going to kill you, poetry as well, and the last was the most deadly. — Brian Castro

You're a defiant act
of creation. — Elisabeth Hewer

Knowing you, I understood myself. — Kamand Kojouri

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

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

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

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry. — Harry Callahan

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin
a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. — Craig Johnson

Winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird ... — John Geddes

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

I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

— Jim Carroll

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

Destroy the
fear in you
before the
fear destroys
the life
before you. — Robert M. Drake

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

... and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you. — Nazim Hikmet

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. — Walt Whitman

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it. — Frederick Lenz

Forgive me,
joy,
if I blasphemed you
before I learned to love. — Milan Rufus

You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and - somehow - the wine. — Billy Collins

You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky. — Elisabeth Hewer

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

Oh, Kanga," said Pooh, after Rabbit had winked at him twice, "I don't know if you are interested in Poetry at all?" "Hardly at all," said Kanga. — A.A. Milne

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. — Robert Morgan

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

If you wish to know me,
just ask. — Susie Clevenger

Prayer is a many fingered
and kaleidoscopic thing - it folds
and unfolds inside of you. It enters
the many rooms you cannot enter. — Cecilia Llompart

I wanna make growing old with you
the last poem I ever have to write — Michael Biondi

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. — Sylvia Plath

If I began to draw
myself away from you

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

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

Go on down to the local palm reader,
she'll spit out exactly what you feed her
because honey, you already knew
your husband was a cheater. — Casey Renee Kiser

Twinkle tiny star.
Oh, how great you truly are!
God's sign from afar. — Richelle E. Goodrich

No, thank you," he flashed that grin of his. "I've been wondering what the lair of a poetry-inclined psychologist looks like. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) — William Shakespeare