Poetry Quotes Quotes

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.

~ Sanober Khan

This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.

~ Atarah L. Poling

May your love for me be likethe scent of the evening seadrifting inthrough a quiet windowso i do not have to runor chase or fall... to feel youall i have to dois breathe.

~ Sanober Khan

the onewho will jolt awakeall the unwrittenthe unsungand the unlived in me. i am waitingfor him.

~ Sanober Khan

i hope thatwhoever you arewherever you areand no matter howyou are feelingyou will always have somethingto smile about.

~ Sanober Khan

your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.

~ Sanober Khan

be the kiss in my hairthat no one seesmove, when i movesigh, when i sigh...be that line from a poemthat i hold in my eyes.

~ Sanober Khan

and the afterglow...of your gaze...is the onlysweater that I need.

~ Sanober Khan

Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.

~ Nicole Lyons

I see what I want of Love... I see horses making the meadow dance, fifty guitars sighing, and a swarm of bees suckling the wild berries, and I close my eyes until I see our shadow behind this dispossessed place... I see what I want of people: their desire to long for anything, their lateness in getting to work and their hurry to return to their folk... and their need to say: Good Morning...

~ Mahmoud Darwish

Within my reflection I see tears, for what I see is the truth, are my greatest fears.

~ Atarah L. Poling

I breathe in...the fragranceof love, and moist sandthe onehis roses lefton both my handsI just keep on breathingevery momentas much as I canpreserving it, in my bodyfor the dayit can’t.

~ Sanober Khan

 ‘Paradise Lost’ was printed in an edition of no more than 1,500 copies and transformed the English language. Took a while. Wordsworth had new ideas about nature: Thoreau read Wordsworth, Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and we got a lot of national parks. Took a century. What poetry gives us is an archive, the fullest existent archive of what human beings have thought and felt by the kind of artists who loved language in a way that allowed them to labor over how you make a music of words to render experience exactly and fully.

~ Robert Hass

I had embraced you...long before i hugged you.

~ Sanober Khan

moonlight disappears down the hillsmountains vanish into fogand i vanish into poetry.

~ Sanober Khan

there is some achingthat will only heal...in the mosque of sleep.

~ Sanober Khan

Tell me..how do you stand there?filling the doorway....of my life.

~ Sanober Khan

Live as many lives as you can.

~ Sanober Khan

i want to stay curled and cosiedand chocolated....foreverin my mother’s arms.

~ Sanober Khan

Sevgili Güllük;Yastık kanepenin üzerine konur. Tekme atılarak düşürülür o. Pazar günleri kuru fasulye yenir. Karşılıklı, alt alta, üst üste ve daha değişik şekillerde durulur. Islak vardır. Portakalın içi de dışı gibi portakal rengidir. Köstebeklerin uçma kabiliyeti bulunmaz. Kamyonlar yük taşırlar. Kaza olur. Kaza yaparlar. Süleyman, Çetin, Atıf, Kemal, Necdet gibi erkek isimleri; Zeynep, Burçak, Burçak ve Burçak gibi kız isimleri vardır. Patates cinsleri vardır; kızartmalık ve haşlamalık. Çeşitli ebatlarda düğün pastaları olur. Muz olur.

~ A.h. Muhsin Ünlü

What am I to do?What is my destiny?I have no idea, not a clueFeeling lost and empty.What is my dream?What is my future?I beg thee to listen to me,I beg thee to answer.

~ Atarah L. Poling

Poetry is never abandon it is only remixed.

~ James Schwartz

The books [poetry collections] may not sell, but neither are they given away or thrown away. They tend, more than other books, to fall apart in their owners’ hands. Not I suppose good news in a culture and economy built on obsolescence. But for a book to be loved this way and turned to this way for consolation and intense renewable excitement seems to me a marvel.

~ Louise Glück

I want to read every book that’s writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.

~ Sanober Khan

Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always feel thirsty.

~ Suzy Kassem

poetrymelts my bones.enters my blood.and changesits composition.

~ Sanober Khan

Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a tranquil lifethrough the wetness of sands Let my heart latch the doorof blackness, as all my pain now blue sky understands

~ Munia Khan

if what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth

~ Robert Peake

Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.

~ Kellie Elmore

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

~ Aberjhani

ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.

~ Melissa Lee-Houghton

To the knights of faith nobody believes.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Faith is a question of eyesight, even the blind can see that.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible the world has written its own.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

To write good poems is the secret of brevity.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There can be no forced inspiration.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

you are a lover of the wordsa soul mate to the storyeverything becomes a part of youfrom my fingertips to your eyesfrom my heart to yours

~ Amanda Linsmeier