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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

Advice to Young Poets
Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head. — Martin Espada

A single wire hanger on a nail by itself
Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor
Is too gloomy for words. — Dara Weir

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh

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

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

The life we're given is on a thread, so wear it well. — Benny Bellamacina

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late. — Dejan Stojanovic

let me die
from having being drunk on
indigo skies, my liver...
overflowing with stars. — Sanober Khan

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face. — Dejan Stojanovic

If you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal? — H.D.

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

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't. — K.J. Parker

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. — Adrienne Rich

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. — Jenim Dibie

I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them. — Christina Strigas

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ's body. — Dejan Stojanovic

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. — G.K. Chesterton

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

Remember The Poem ... — R.M. Engelhardt

The hills
like poets put on
purple thought against
the
magnificent clamor of
day
tortured
in gold — E. E. Cummings

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

Everywhere the poems open. — Mary Kinzie

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

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

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

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

a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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