Poet Quotes

Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection.

~ Laurie Perez

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.

~ Tsegaye Gebre Medhin

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

~ Delano Johnson

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

~ Delano Johnson

In you I see an immaculate woman full of feminine grace and untarnished beauty.

~ Delano Johnson

Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration.

~ Delano Johnson

The world holds two classes of men--intelligent men without religion, and religious men withoutintelligence.poet

~ ~ Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri

The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

~ Paul Travis

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.

~ Minton Sparks

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

~ Kamand Kojouri

We all knew she needed help.But none of us knew how.And none of us could swallow our pride and just ask her what she needed.I don’t know why.Maybe we were too ashamed we didn’t know how to approach our own mother.So we let the years slip unhappily past us and hoped we would never inherit the misery embedded in her soul.But I did.And I didn’t know how to say it aloud. And I still don’t.

~ Stacy Morris

It always felt as though there were a shaken beehive living in my chest. I could never rest.

~ Stacy Morris

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.

~ Sanober Khan

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

~ Jason E. Hodges

The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.

~ Jason E. Hodges

Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing.

~ Jason E. Hodges

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

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

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

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

~ Countee Cullen

I was born with my eyes turned inward.

~ David Joseph Cribbin

poems are small moments of enlightenment

~ Natalie Goldberg

... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...

~ John Geddes

Birds are the eyes of Heaven.

~ Suzy Kassem

Earth is crammed with heaven, and every bush is aflame with the glory of God. But only those who see take of their shoes; the rest just pick the berries.

~ Elizabeth Browning

Being poet is my choiceless choice.

~ Tripurari

Being poet is my choicesless choice.

~ Tripurari

I'm a poet and It's my choiceless choice.

~ Tripurari

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 have battled with loneliness. I have battled with insecurity and rootlessness. But I have never given up the struggle. I have never quit trying in life.

~ Avijeet Das

I am as disillusioned with the number of likes for one's posts on social networking sites as I am with the number of followers in one's social network. A great number of people liking your work does not prove your mettle as a writer or as an artiste!If my work can affect even one person and make him/her think then I am satisfied as a writer.

~ Avijeet Das

A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of the beauty we each bring to our respective space(s). It leaves us all less fulfilled and enlightened.

~ Shirley Houston

Don`t you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you.

~ Vaishnavi Hajari

Early in her career, Muse engaged her skills for technical purposes, such as document translation and schematic visualizations for government entities. She continued to write and paint poetically, in secret, using her pen name, Muse. An inner compass is evident in her work. Pieces reflect both past and present dilemmas; while showcasing her victories in overcoming these obstacles ~ all from her faith based perspective. Light touches of modernism play hand in hand with old world strokes, offering highly visceral readings.

~ Earl M. Coleman

The Lone Star of Africa Land of the free, on your beach and sacred forests loves flourished. You, Liberia, you my love to echo, the scream of freedom, holding tight and will never let go. O beautiful land, The Lone star for decades has survived wars and tribalism the elders who keep the ancestral treasures that resulted in Vandalism. When will morning break for great leaders to stand for what is right Mother Liberia?

~ Henry Johnson Jr

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write. 

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

~ D.a. Botta

I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. I'm not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I simply share what I do in my spare time. All poetry springs from genuine feelings. I'm only a woman expressing herself to the world.

~ Tammy-Louise Wilkins