Poetry Quotes Quotes

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

~ Countee Cullen

When the Brooklyn rain comes downhopefully it will be to fuckin' wake you up

~ Julian Gallo

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

~ Richard Jackson

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul.

~ Richard Jackson

In writing I try to pare down the descriptive bits. If I feel that I could say something in as few words as possible, then I would rather do it than to go on padding. One should describe sufficiently to give the reader a sense of what one feels, but not at the same time overwhelm the reader in any way. For example, I feel that if you use lots of adjectives they have a mutually cancelling effect. If you can describe a scene well enough, without having to use far too many words, I would rather do so.

~ Arthur Yap

I had a theory; I’m not sure if it was my own but it worked for me. Public spaces, such as streets and subway stations, became inhabitable as I assigned them some value and imprinted an experience on them. If I recited a snatch of Paterson every time I walked along a certain avenue, eventually that avenue would sound like William Carlos Williams. The entrance to the subway at 116th Street was Emily Dickinson’s:Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawnIndicative that suns go down;The notice to the startled grassThat darkness is about to pass.

~ Valeria Luiselli

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.

~ Amy King

You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don't slay Jekyll in his stead

~ Shannon Barnsley

DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR.

~ Amy King

THE AMPUTATED HEARTBEATS HARDER

~ Amy King

OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED POETRY - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S POEMS TO GET AN INVITE ~

~ Amy King

SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.

~ Amy King

WORDS SHLD BE FREE. RELEASE THEM FROM THEIR SENTENCES.

~ Amy King

HER BARBED-WIRE SMILELIFTED YOU TO HEAVENBUT I HAVE TO ASKDID GOD LOOK LIKE HER VOICE

~ Amy King

IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON.

~ Amy King

LIFE IS NEVER OVER.

~ Amy King

ERRORS ARE WHAT MAKE US HUMAN. PLOT TWIST: I'M A HORSE.

~ Amy King

YOU SAY POET LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.

~ Amy King

I WISH YOU ALL THE REALITY YOU COULD EVER WANT. HANDLE. WANT.

~ Amy King

Go to the poets, they will speak to theeMore perfectly of purer creatures--

~ William Wordsworth

Here's to adrenaline. Here's to dramatic abandon of protocol. Here's to treasured pain and purple rain. Here's to chasing our souls, burning across to sky. Here's to drinking the ash as it falls, and not asking why.

~ Virginia Petrucci

I don't analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it--the sweet and sad and raw and bright together.Poetry is that, the weaving of light-shadow. Making words from the unwordable.

~ Jacob Nordby

Whenever life is getting tough hold on.Don't let it get the best of you stay strong.

~ Laqueisha Malone

Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms and follow the discordant hum of your personal entropy.

~ Virginia Petrucci

I like my thingshurried and haunted. Night teadarktime. Sacred geometry, secret geometrypetal-flame whisper: I am here, and you aren't.

~ Virginia Petrucci

My mind: a thousand hungry daughters,my harlot heritage.Marbles: lost, no rescue search.Your heart: blooming thorns,and a stolen grocery cart.

~ Virginia Petrucci

You crawled inside myribs to die. Giant becomes squirrelbecomes a dirt-wet girlfeverishly alive.

~ Virginia Petrucci

You were, arecactus tourism. meeting you: granularfractals borrowed from oceans.

~ Virginia Petrucci

My pond life with hydra is over, now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..

~ Munia Khan

And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.

~ Danabelle Gutierrez

When he asks you whyyou chose alone all these years.Tell him that it’s becauseyou love with all claws and bared teeth.Apologize for the scratchesthat you will leave on his skin;ask forgiveness for the bite marks.Tell him you never ever mean to love so hard, but you do.

~ Danabelle Gutierrez

Winning a love is just an outcome, keeping a love is a true accomplishment.

~ Soar

He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.

~ Danabelle Gutierrez

Cultivate the distance. Nurture the silence. Let it grow until your fragile heart is as far and inaccessible as his marbled emotions. Don't talk. Don't move. Sit still. If he shows up, lie. Believe your own excuses.And if he tries to charm his way back in, punch him in the face.

~ Danabelle Gutierrez

Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love...

~ Soar

… For everything precious and pure coming in our lives should be treated likewise.

~ Soar

There are things we do that the human mind doesn't understand, yet the same things are meant for the heart to fully comprehend.

~ Soar

Not every given chance deserves love, but every love deserves a given chance.

~ Soar

But when I think of us,in the quiet when I'm on my own,I think of Beauty and the Beast.I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.

~ Danabelle Gutierrez

To withstand the nothing, it really takes everything.But it can also take just one thing: a heartbeat in truth beside you; when the mask has been removed.(Soar)

~ Soar