Poetry Quotes Quotes

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Oh, let what I am keep on existing and ceasing to exist,and let my obedience align itself with such iron      conditionsthat the quaking of deaths and of births doesn't shakethe deep place I want to reserve for myself eternally.

~ Mark Eisner

I'm not worried about plagiarism, I don't care if every person between here and Hell's creation put their name on my work as long as it ends up in the eyes of someone that found peace in the words

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

When the last leaf falls,what will die within us?

~ Sheniz Janmohamed

In my heart, poetry screams, “I exist!

~ Delano Johnson

Poets are Prisoners8-29-2015Poets are prisonersPractitioners, commissioners &conditioners of the spoken word Caged by their own mindsWords are shackles

~ Debbie Tosun Kilday

This poem inspired me to write my eBook.The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Lord TennysonAnd I would be the necklace, And all day long to fall and rise Upon her balmy bosom, With her laughter or her sighs; And I would lie so light, so light, I scarce should be unclasp’d at night.

~ Ellen Read

Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.

~ Shilpa Sandesh

No matter how many times I break...I will repair.No matter how many times I tear...I will sew. -From Towards Peace in a More Natural Order

~ Isabel Marcheselli

This poem inspired me to write my eBook.The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Lord TennysonIt is the miller’s daughter, And she is grown so dear, so dear,That I would be the jewel That trembles in her ear; For hid in ringlets day and night I’d touch her neck so warm and white.

~ Ellen Read

Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.

~ Sanober Khan

Look athow deeply flawedwe areand yet capable of lovingso perfectly.

~ Sanober Khan

When we were kids I begged cupid to come and shoot me.

~ Delano Johnson

As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment...

~ David Berman

Poetry fights against the injustice of this world. Poetry's truths are ageless.

~ Delano Johnson

the dolphins stitch sky to sea.

~ Ellen Bass

I wanted to explore more of us and lose myself, I wanted it to be you and no one else AP

~ Alexis Pettway

Poetry listens to me when I am silent and understands me when no one else seems to be able to.

~ Delano Johnson

I love poetry, but I often wonder how poetry feels about me.

~ Delano Johnson

As I string, a swift rhythm is played out with my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many of the poor workers, the meter and rhythm of stringing tobacco is the only poetry they’ve ever known.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

To me and the rest of the world your poetry is a gift.

~ Delano Johnson

A rebel to what’s cool, I don't follow trends, maybe that’s why I don't have many friends, but I know my destination.

~ Delano Johnson

Be yourself. Trust me, you don’t want to be anyone else because they are not you and you are special.

~ Delano Johnson

If only I had wings, I would not hesitate to fly away from my mistakes.

~ Delano Johnson

The dictionary feeds me daily, thesaurus always adds the gravy, big words I bite, so very tasty.

~ Delano Johnson

Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again!

~ Delano Johnson

Miracles happen, lyrical inhalation of poetry, you will not stop my words from breathing.

~ Delano Johnson

Only God and His angels can hear our hearts duet.

~ Delano Johnson

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

~ Agona Apell

She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

~ Jim Morrison

Mountains clothed in snowRobed in white against blue skiesMirrored in the lake.

~ Timothy Salter

To them, eternal life beginsAnd God Himself shall wipe away all tears.

~ Timothy Salter

In every garden grows one single rose so perfect that once the frost takes it, no other can grow there again. My rose is and will ever be my Edilyn. And I shall never stop mourning her. Illarion's Tattoo

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

O Weep No More ForMe When I Am Gone!

~ Timothy Salter

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

Karibu, dada wangu. Hapa, wewe ni nyumbani. Welcome, my sister. Here, you are home. Home. And to this home, may you always return.

~ Jen Lynn Anderson

Springtimeand I wish I knew you

~ Ralph Fletcher

Those who eat porridge and those who drink gruel live and die.Even though the faces change,porridge eaters and gruel drinkers continue to manifest.

~ Santosh Lamichhane

Failure has a hacksaw to my anklesand right now there is nothingI want more than to learnhow to walk on my hands.

~ Jen Lynn Anderson

I am a poem in progresswith no clear beginning or endingjust a middleuntended, unintended,unfinished, hanging therelike the breath before a question

~ Jen Lynn Anderson