Poetry Quotes Quotes

I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole.

~ Nicole Lyons

She is the fragrance of a dozen jasmines.

~ Avijeet Das

She is forever beautiful just like the roses.

~ Avijeet Das

And you look more beautiful when you blush.

~ Avijeet Das

People start to lie more once they start to care less.

~ Rain Cooper

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

~ Nicole Lyons

Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are.

~ Avijeet Das

My wife is a thief...She takes the last cookieTakes forever to get readyShe takes her time in the showerTakes all of the hot waterShe takes my favorite seat on the couchTakes the high road when I lose controlMy wife is a thief...She took my last nameTook the time to get to know me, love meShe took the back seat and let me leadTook on motherhood and the emotional toll that it bringsShe took care of me the many times that I've gotten sickTook on the pain of pregnancy so that the Jackson legacy would live onMy wife takes, and takes, and takes...I'm so proud of my perpetual thief who stole my heart and won't give it back.

~ David Jackson

She loved me deeply, madly and passionately. She knew no other way!

~ Avijeet Das

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and dived deeply into her ocean of love and that's how I saved my soul!

~ Avijeet Das

Some people walk into our life and make us fall in love with our self.

~ Avijeet Das

We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we talk for hours and hours, Sylvia Plath and me!

~ Avijeet Das

You made a poet fall in love with the world.

~ Avijeet Das

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

I do not trust the truth. It shifts into reality.

~ Christina Strigas

I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

~ Christina Strigas

The longer the silence remains untouched the longer the miscommunication creates its own stories.

~ Christina Strigas

When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me.

~ Christina Strigas

I see the beauty in you, and the darkness. Both are brilliant.

~ Christina Strigas

all the parts of mei did not show youwere the onesi wanted you to notice.

~ Christina Strigas

You can't break up with a soul mate.

~ Christina Strigas

Treat me like a rare first edition of your favourite novel.

~ Christina Strigas

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

~ Christina Strigas

You read between the wrong lines.

~ Christina Strigas

While the world has found the right names for all chronic mental diseases, I believe poetry is also a brain dysfunction, yet the only one that owns itself the mastery for the cure. Isn’t it lovely to say, “He/She suffers of Poetry?”.

~ Ioana-Cristina Casapu

Roses have thorns,’ we whine. When thorns of life entwine. Simple things can bring solace to heart-Things everyone take for granted-Like tending beds of fragile roses-with heart full of scars

~ Val Uchendu

Every morningbefore the birds starttrilling me their stories,I give birth to a new lovethrough my same old heartwhen a lake’s placidityfinds life in the swans breathOnly for you...From the poem 'Only For You

~ Munia Khan

Thorns with rose petals, beauty with imperfection, softness of insensibility, pain of love; duality of human nature

~ Val Uchendu

I read old poems I wrote. They were all about you.

~ Sheen Francis Reyes

Night after night on starry wingsNight lovers soared so highMiles apart, across the oceansTheir love forgot to sighIn heavenly flight’s timelessnessThat highest height treasuredInto the deepest of all bluesTheir depth of love measured.From the poem 'The Ballad of Night Lovers

~ Munia Khan

Don't ignore anybody who has ignored everbody and everything for you.

~ Adis Ahmedi

Let our love chase all clouds awayHold my hand and feel the dayYour footsteps guide my steps all alongBeneath my skin your veins belong.

~ Munia Khan

She knew me beyond my actionsBeyond my shallow attempts at happiness.She knew I had darknessAnd when I undressedAnd showed her what I was made ofShe noddedKnowing I was unrepairableAnd said 'I'll be here for you anyway

~ Stacy Morris

Pose your questions to people and you will get countless useless answers.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

All people are enslaved by something.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Death is buried there into death Hunger strikes on its own last breathNo spine to shiver, no heart talks At life’s craving poverty mocksFrom the poem 'Exhumation

~ Munia Khan

I dreamed in night vision; whiteflowers of nocturnalgun fire – day residue shot to hell. If I held my dreamsto a windowsill,sun would sievethrough my screams.

~ Jalina Mhyana

The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched.

~ Dejan Stojanovic