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And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life. — Nicole Lyons

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies. — Dejan Stojanovic

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting. — Dejan Stojanovic

Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute. — Dejan Stojanovic

Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. — Jose Marti

Get close to grass and you'll see a star. — Dejan Stojanovic

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring. — Mason Cooley

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. — Virginia Woolf

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. — Aberjhani

and stars sang like crickets in the dropping dusk and were. — Agnes McDonald

NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like.
Dangerous by Shannon Hale — Shannon Hale

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

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. — Wallace Stevens

They say that history is going on somewhere.
They say it won't stop. I have held
One picture still for a long time and waited. — William Stafford

A single poem
is worth a hundred
cozy winter nights
kind words
and healed wounds. — Sanober Khan

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

i have laughed
more than daffodils
and cried more than June. — Sanober Khan

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

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom. — Plato

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

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. — Philip Larkin

Poetry is a finikin thing of air
That lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs. — Wallace Stevens

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. — Sophie Swetchine

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James

There are poets and there are grownups. — Jean Cocteau

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

Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore. — Emma Ghent Curtis

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource. — John Keats

I recall that now and I recall everything for what do we have
but the past to parent us? — Kathleen Driskell

I have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay — William Butler Yeats

i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun. — AVA.

i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love. — AVA.

Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy — Christina Rossetti

What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming? — Aberjhani

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

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

i am changing
and i am loving change. — AVA.

depth and substance.
the two most exquisite qualities.
be it in a poem
or a person. — Sanober Khan

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

words
like mysterious mermaids
come and live permanently
in the soft sweeps
and scars of my skin. — Sanober Khan

Criticism is to poetry as air is to a noise: it allows it to be heard; and even if we can't see it or feel it, it is there, shaping how we hear. — Annie Finch

you make autumn mist
taste like champagne

and turn winter rain
into the elixir of life itself. — Sanober Khan

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. — Plato

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge. — Dejan Stojanovic

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing. — Dejan Stojanovic

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live. — John F. Kennedy

How strange and ironic it is-
all the words i long to say
are lost in words. — Sanober Khan

for we all have
our own

twilights
and mists
and abysses

to return to. — Sanober Khan

The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers. — Randolph Bourne

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland

Love me...with all the abandon
of a sudden wild rain. — Sanober Khan

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. — Dennis Potter

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

For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent. — Debasish Mridha

So when you inhale and exhale, notice your breath and realize God is dwelling in your chest. — Trinka Polite

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. — Dejan Stojanovic

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops. — James Fenton

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

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

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

poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-

of turning silence
into eloquence. — Sanober Khan

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

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

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

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

If I began to draw
myself away from you

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

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

In my heart, poetry screams, "I exist! — Delano Johnson

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. — R.H. Blyth

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about. — A.E. Samaan

Poets are sitting in my kitchen.
Why do these poets lie?
Why do children get children and
Did you hear what it said? — Anne Sexton

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. — Dejan Stojanovic

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. — Aberjhani

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed. — Dejan Stojanovic

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry. — David J. Delaney

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani

When we were kids I begged cupid to come and shoot me. — Delano Johnson

The world is God's salvation. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.

and changes
its composition. — Sanober Khan

A pear should come to the table popped with juice,
Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms
Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. — Wallace Stevens

Poets sing our human music for us. — Carol Ann Duffy

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free. — Robert Frost

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings - stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again. — Greg Bear