Poetry Quotes Quotes

Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.

~ Melody Lee

They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the ones who have been taken by her wild.

~ Nicole Lyons

Some people wait to get flowers while others grow gardens.

~ Chris Mcgeown

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Etched In Bone-At night I engrave my bones with poems.Scratching.Carving.Etching.During the day I feel every notch and ridgehidden inside me.I repeat them to myself.In time others will read them tooand know me.

~ Keelie Breanna

I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too

~ Amanda Linsmeier

By noon, silence arrives one last time, flowing into every space of her room. And before long, silence swallows sound and color and seconds and equations and entire stanzas of old poetry, leaving new words. The sheets are breathless. The room is bruised.My mother is still warm.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

Why do I love poetry? It's more than word play, less about the pay. Let's just say that for the first time in along while I stopped running, stared back at my darkest worst and said, 'Come here, you belong with me

~ Evy Michaels

Why do I love poetry? It's more than word play, less about the pay. Let's just say that for the first time in a long while I stopped running, stared back at my darkest worst and said, 'Come here, you belong with me

~ Evy Michaels

Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering,High in the purer, happier air.

~ Walt Whitman

Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad in her sober livery all things clad;Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;She all night long her amorous descant sung;Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmamentWith living sapphires; Hesperus, that ledThe starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,Rising in clouded majesty, at lengthApparent queen unveil'd her peerless light,And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

~ John Milton

I never understood desire until i felt your hands around my throat.

~ Michael Faudet

Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...

~ Rafael Reyes

You're Times New Roman, but I'm more Comic Sans.

~ Kestral M. Gaian

A man does not become a real man by showing his physical domination over women. A man becomes a real man by loving, respecting and protecting women.

~ Avijeet Das

Poetry is the lighthouse of lifeGuiding the lost from a stormy sea.Without it's presence darkness prevailsKeeping us from all we can be.People write poetry because they have no choiceAnswering to the call of their gift.Where some tend to pull their readers downOthers compose to give them a lift.excerpts from The Power of Poetry by Tom Zart

~ Zart

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.

~ Avijeet Das

She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall slowly on to the green leaves of an old guava tree just as I do. She loves drifting in time and time travel just as I do. She loves looking at the waves dashing against the rocks just as I do.

~ Avijeet Das

I am trying to both be happy and pay attention to the world around me. I do not know if it is possible to do both at the same time.

~ Blythe Baird

Don’t you dare say these times are hollowJust because there are storms raging by.Just lay low on your pillow,Close your eyes and say goodbyeTo the world that you lived in today.Let your dreams carry you away;You lived a nightmare all through the day,It is time to dream, so don’t delay.You searched for a reason to live,Yes darling, you searched everywhere.You had to push, you had to strive,It is time now to get some air.You searched in all that is outside,It is time now to look inside,Cause that is where you’ll findA reason worth keeping in your mind.These dreams are not an escape, darling,You need time to see past the lies that blind you.It is time for you to start runningTo those things that are true.So, don’t you dare say these nights are hollow,Just because there are storms raging by.Just lay low on your pillowAnd lose yourself in this lullaby.

~ Melita Tessy

& besides, I don’tdesign my smiles to be nets because I’m not fishing

~ Roseanna Boswell

Cover mine eyes, O my Love! Mine eyes that are weary of bliss As of light that is poignant and strong O silence my lips with a kiss, My lips that are weary of song! Shelter my soul, O my love! My soul is bent low with the pain And the burden of love, like the grace Of a flower that is smitten with rain: O shelter my soul from thy face!

~ Sarojini Naidu

If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we would talk of sticky hands, and the messes they make.

~ Nicole Lyons

You were the devil. Dressed in everything. I wanted.

~ R H Sin

No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark.

~ Warsan Shire

I think you feel like, unless you're damagedyou're not deep enough or mysterious enoughor complicated enough to ever be appreciated by another.And that is deeply untrue.

~ Stacy Morris

It took me a long time to realise that mothers are women who carry youAnd not necessarily in their womb.

~ Stacy Morris

Lift up your eyes unto mine air and see the love floating there for I am Paradise and I am everywhere.

~ Allen Meece

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

~ Kamand Kojouri

She is the light,at the end of this endless tunnel.

~ Vivid Darkness

No misery ever so beautiful than the one this mind creates.

~ Vivid Darkness

You burn like a candleinside my soul,showing me a waythrough this darkness.

~ Vivid Darkness

Amidst a crowd of strangers,I still remain unknownto myself.

~ Vivid Darkness

Tingling fingers, morning birds, rain splatters on window pane, journals of fading escapades and laughter...

~ Val Uchendu

Never be an artist that starts worshiping yourself or believe your little group is better than anyone outside of it. For, you are nothing more than a grain of sand on a hillside in this world of ours. Even Da Vinci’s work is only glanced at then scrolled past on a phone or computer these days. Climb down off your throne and become humble once more.

~ Jason E. Hodges

The mind is a poetic meadow for reification, where dark and light things are created

~ Val Uchendu

We all have our state of mind- happy or sad,sources of both are so relatable.Despite showing someone’s faults & flaws we need to cherish them. cause, we all are into an e n d l e s s l o o p.

~ Ayushi Jain

Cactus AndanteIn the desert of Peru grows a cactus with legs.This plant from the Cactus family is the only highly developed flowering plant that has been noticed walking. Cactus Andante is also known as “the crawling devil.” It has a snake-like body branching out in all directions.

~ Христина Мирчева

no one tells you rome is ending until you're the last one standing alone in a coliseum where a city had been.

~ Brandon Thomas Disabatino