Poetry Quotes

...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone...

~ Munia Khan

Do you pray for our world or just your world? If all your prayers were answered, would it change our world or just your world?

~ T S. Edwards

Used to be hewas my heart's desire.His forthright gaze,his expert hands:I'd lie on the couch with my eyesclosed just thinking about it.Never about the factthat everything changes,that even this,my best passion,would not be immune.No, I would bask on in aneternal daydream of the handsfinding me, the gaze like a windingstair coaxing me down. . . .Until I caught a glimpseof something in the mirror:silly girl in her lingerie,dancing with the furniture--a hot little bundle, flush withcliches. Into that pairof too-bright eyes I lookedand saw myself. And something

~ Deborah Garrison

A man once said of women, Women are like roads, the more curves, the more fun, exciting and dangerous they are. While the evolved man smiles with class and confidence and says, women with more curves, twists and turns in her mind are the most beautiful, exciting, dangerous creatures alive. And the evolved woman, well, she will accept no less than the evolved man; a man with honor, dignity and depth.

~ Melody Lee

Her stories were made of badass women teasing monsters and running wild with dragons.

~ Melody Lee

I was painter staring at a canvas waiting for the forgotten visions of my new abstract piece to come to me. But I am the abstract piece and my mind cannot comprehend the work my heart has created.

~ Rediet Worku

Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.

~ Melody Lee

Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light you carry within.

~ Cynthia Dougherty-Bernal

She's vodka in a sexy lingerie and high heels.I'm always drunk.

~ J.a. Anum

A maidenhead, the virgin's troubleIs well-compare-d to a bubbleon a navigable riverSoon 'tis touched t'is gone forever

~ John Clare

Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.

~ Traci Brimhall

She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.

~ Mina Loy

Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

i am a woman and a poem. – visceral

~ Nayyirah Waheed

The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul.

~ Ondjaki

don't think you can ever forget her don't even try she's not going to budgeno choice but to grant her spacecrown her with skyfor she is one of the manyand she is each of us

~ Rita Dove

Since she's discoveredmen would rather drownthan nibble,she does just fine.

~ Rita Dove

Women invented misery, but we don't understand it.

~ Rita Dove

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Let us remember to always rediscover one anotherbecause we are forever changing.

~ Kamand Kojouri

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Towards these weeks of rain I give effusive praise. Let me always be reminded that there is time for change.

~ Taylor Patton

Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it.Don’t just fit in; make it a point to brighten your corner. Decide to resolve your challenges. Don’t just manage; go extra mile and win your race. Never give up the fight. You will win.Don’t just be able; always make sure you are available. Be present to make a change.Don’t just be alive; once you have arrived, find the reason why and make that reason accomplished.Don’t just wish; be passionate about what you wish to see happen. Rise up and make it happen.Don’t just create; create to change; change to improve; improve to increase. Aspire to inspire.Don’t just be making a living; make a life and leave an indelible footstep wherever you step.I want to meet you and many others on the top. Don’t be left out!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Be you.That, my friend,is the change you wantto become in the world.

~ Frederick Espiritu

I write our names on the page.What of it, if the paper will be burned?I write our names in the sand.What of it, if the shore will be washed by waves?I write our names on trees that will be cutand benches that will be painted,but what of it?I will keep on writing our namesbecause in this world of ephemera, You and I are the only constant.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Knowing you,I became mindless.Having wasted previous wishes,I'm riddled with regretsFeeling you,I became hopeless.Adrift in chasms,I surrender to a caress.Loving you,I became love.My universe became love.Planets rotate on love's axes andapples fall to be near their beloveds.No longer a rationalist, I assert my existence with love. I love, therefore I exist,therefore I love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I have no use for these other loves.Seal them shut in jarsand place them in the pantry. A reserve of love.Thank them for their love.They are so kind.Perhaps store them in the fridgeFor others to take.They say love is a panacea. I know it is not.Flakes of snow,no two are alike.When I am down on my knees, hopeless and angry,for the world no longer makes sense,I won't look in the pantry or fridge.It is your hand pressing on my shoulderthat makes me whole,makes me forget.What trouble? What world?

~ Kamand Kojouri

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Before you, nothing.Now you, and everything

~ Kamand Kojouri

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separa

~ Adrienne Rich

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

She burns like the sunBeautiful when she comes undoneNo restraintsPure passion flowing through her veinsMadness refusing to be tamed.

~ Melody Lee

My soulmust reachinto the cloudsand touch the beauty of madness.

~ Melody Lee

Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.

~ Melody Lee

There is a beastwithin my heart.She plays immaculately with the beauty in my soul.

~ Melody Lee

So bashful when I spied her!So pretty ― so ashamed!So hidden in her leafletsLest anybody find ―So breathless till I passed her ―So helpless when I turnedAnd bore her struggling, blushing,Her simple haunts beyond!For whom I robbed the Dingle ―For whom betrayed the Dell ―Many, will doubtless ask me,But I shall never tell!

~ Emily Dickinson