That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

~ G.k. Chesterton

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Medicinal Spirit, Inside MirrorTherapy becomes a harmony, and that harmony is built on levels,No one knows how to upscale another, for it has to come from the inside grails,Striking inflicts at the mirror and hatred to the being of creator,Causes hate in mirror too and abused flesh to the author,Changes come from its prudence and rationalism liberation,Not its pardon,A mirror is but a substance of a conscious,But identity says let me fly when journeying from the subconscious to the conscious.

~ John Shelton Jones

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I was born one thousand times and all the while it was you I met again to only meet again under the thousand stars that divide us and connect us.

~ Christina Strigas

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Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.

~ Ged Thompson ~Poet

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And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when, no they were not voices, they were not words, nor silence, but from a street I was summoned, from the branches of night, abruptly from the others, among violent fires or returning alone, there I was without a face and it touched me. 

~ Pablo Neruda

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Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!O falling fire and piercing cryand panic, and a weak mailed fistclenched ignorant against the sky!

~ Elizabeth Bishop

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If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.

~ Pawan Mishra

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One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.

~ Elizabeth Bishop

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How—I didn't know anyword for it—how unlikely. . .How had I come to be here,like them, and overheara cry of pain that could havegot loud and worse but hadn't?

~ Elizabeth Bishop

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Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit

~ Paul Travis

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YOUR WORDS ARE MADE OF THE AIR I BREATHE.

~ Amy King

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True poetry is composed of metaphors and symbols which are born in the heart, rise like clouds, and assume a celestial form; verses formed otherwise are not poetry, but only artificial words, each of which contradicts the feelings inside. The utterances and words that have not been formed in a person’s soul as the voice of conscience are all hollow, no matter how embellished they are or how dazzling they seem to be.

~ M. Fethullah Gülen

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Poetry can be more eloquent than the most eloquent sermons, and it becomes a weapon more formidable than the sharpest of swords; whenever such a poem--which finds its correct tune and conveys the excitement of the heart--rings out, all the miserable, heaped drifts of words fly for shelter and bury themselves in ashamed silence. Whenever such a sword of poetry is drawn from its scabbard, all the false princes of words, who have set their thrones on a void, are thwarted and retreat into seclusion.

~ M. Fethullah Gülen

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A perfect poem owes its perfection to sounding the voice of the heart and the melodies of the conscience, as well as its ability to reflect the considerations, beliefs, opinions, and horizons of thought of the poet, but not due to its formal or mental aspects.

~ M. Fethullah Gülen

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Every time a poet is about to write, every time the open their mouth to say something, they express their inner world and tell of their own feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, unless they are deliberately pursuing fantasies which contrast with their beliefs, opinions, thoughts, and the point of view.

~ M. Fethullah Gülen

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Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

~ M. Fethullah Gülen

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Amy King is a true bard.

~ Tomaž Šalamun

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i bring my kiasu friend to the airportleavings are never easy, not for longand though we both saw blur along the waymemories flooded present tensions.in the curry of his life no lemak remainedso now the predictable exit signalledthe end of his roundings, his bombings–he can bluff like hell, ma, he got style–and left me thinking about home, my kampong.

~ Kirpal Singh

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OnceThere was a quiet island,With a name.You must believe me When I say that sunlight, Impure but beautiful, Broke upon the bay, silveredThe unrepentant, burning moon.

~ Edwin Thumboo

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Beneath it allI kept faith with Ithaca, travelled,Travelled and travelled,Suffering much, enjoying a little;Met strange people singingNew myths; made myths myself.But this lion of the seaSalt-maned, scaly, wondrous of tail,Touched with power, insistentOn this brief promontory...Puzzles.

~ Edwin Thumboo

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You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.

~ Robert Burns

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A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

~ Wallace Stegner

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I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.

~ Sherman Kennon

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I walk with a dual longing for life and for death.

~ Melissa Lee-Houghton

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Tonight, I won't dream, because nobodyhas held me and no hands have strayed and eventhough I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty.

~ Melissa Lee-Houghton

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Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.

~ Federico García Lorca

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Another breath, left to translate

~ Susan Voth

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I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.

~ Alysia Harris

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Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

~ Lenore Kandel

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Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

~ Lenore Kandel

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In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium.

~ Kevin Crossley-Holland

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Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.

~ Yarro Rai

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Approaching the Start of Civil ExamsPerhaps I was once a young Chinese scholarapproaching the start of civil exams,my mind grown weary and sad from seclusionwith books on syntax and poetic style.All that I knew were the mist-covered mountainsand sweet white blossoms of mountain applesthat grew in the valleys of my province.But I had been gone over six yearsbusy with studies in the Heavenly Cityempty and thin despite my work.I showed my verses to an older poetwho told me a truth I longed to believe:all knowledge is futile and barrenwhich does not open the love of your friends.

~ Jim Chapson

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Nights, are belong to the universe that speaks about an unspoken feelings into a poetry.

~ Dina Zettira Putri

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You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate.

~ Unarine Ramaru

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If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of it soaked in mud. It's warm and it stinks like shit and it's unaccountably and endlessly good. It's thick and it goes on for miles and it isn't so much deep as bottomless and it holds you in its grip, you never drown. And then it goes. That's all you know.

~ Eileen Myles

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Hemingway is overrated,Twain is even more lost at sea,And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,Where both her whispers and her screams,Are born.Pour another glass, Beer, wine, whiskey,I don't care,So long as its wisdom is sharp,And it tells lies instead of promises.

~ Dave Matthes

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I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

~ Jasper Fforde

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The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

~ Criss Jami

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