Poetry Quotes

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?

~ Danabelle Gutierrez

...and tell you the worst of me and try to give you the best of me...

~ Sarah Kane

Wrote you a poem or two. You didn’t enjoy them, but I did for you.

~ Dominic Riccitello

If you can't be the poet, be the poem.

~ David Carradine

I don’t believe he deserves the thousands of poems I’ve written about him, but life doesn’t follow rules. We do things for people who don’t necessarily deserve it. But we liked it, we loved it and fell in love enough to write about it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Most of the books of erotic poetry available today are either too old or are big anthologies covering the same poets and poems. There is a lack of new and original work. Most of us have read something from Ovid, Sappho, Shakespeare, the ancient Greeks, the Romans, or from the Kama Sutra. But love is a theme that should be celebrated with freshness.

~ Salil Jha

I’m floating. I’m flowing. I’m loving, but I’m going.

~ Dominic Riccitello

We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry.

~ Dominic Riccitello

But could words bethe end of me?

~ Dominic Riccitello

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever...

~ Nick Armbrister

Dear love, for nothing less than theeWould I have broke this happy dream;It was a themeFor reason, much too strong for fantasy,Therefore thou wak'd'st me wisely; yetMy dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.Thou art so true that thoughts of thee sufficeTo make dreams truths, and fables histories;Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best,Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.

~ John Donne

Negative people feed off of your anger, let them starve.

~ Samantha M. King

You are not who you think.You're not even the thinker.You are the one conscious of the thought.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Come, let us speak with our bodies.Teach me how to please you.I am here to learn.Let us not waste this time.It is the hour of union.ComeAnd after you do,Come again.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The best tourist is one without a camera.

~ Kamand Kojouri

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Numbered are the daysof hunger stricken straysa woman's curving tastea paper police state.

~ Virginia Petrucci

I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing with my imagination to even tip toe with reality for a second. They say I'm going mad. They're right.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

~ John Fowles

An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

If it doesn't sound insane, I would only talk about you and the only word which would come out of my mouth, will be your name.

~ Masood Azam

You will face hard times in life. Sometimes they are supposed to come, sometimes not. Get through them no matter what, 'cause the good life is always on the other side.

~ F.c.

To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.

~ Robert M. Drake

Maybe one day we’ll find that place, where you and I could be together and we’ll catch our dreams within the waves of change. So hear me, you are not alone.

~ Robert M. Drake

The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re both a little crazy. Enough to believe we’re found where dreams are born and beneath our faults remain a science, where you and I will run away and leave nothing behind.

~ Robert M. Drake

Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever find you in every life time and so on. Until the stars die out and the universe leaps but even then, my love will remain.

~ Robert M. Drake

The more I learned the less I felt I knew you and I got lost counting stars, I fell dreaming. Sometimes I’d wander away. Maybe I wasn’t ready or maybe it was just a hard time to love. You always reminded me of home and I could never fathom the reasoning behind your smile. Perhaps one day, if we believe enough, we’ll find our way.

~ Robert M. Drake

She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way and find new places, close our eyes and fall back towards a constellation of dreams. We wrapped ourselves in a blanket of passion and each night we fell deeper without control, into this strange space called love.

~ Robert M. Drake

Maybe all that we are is what people expect us to be.

~ Robert M. Drake

Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness of me I saw the emptiness of you and I poured my half upon you to fill you whole. I risked it all just to dream you complete and catch you one day free in the wild.

~ Robert M. Drake

She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.

~ Robert M. Drake

That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare, hoping one day you’d return to rid me of the demons you left behind.

~ Robert M. Drake

technology murdered childhood.

~ Robert M. Drake

Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.

~ Robert M. Drake

Your greatest dreams will always slumber within the vicious depths of fear.

~ Robert M. Drake

She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her smile was a reflection of my own brokenness. It defined buried feelings that I could never ignore.

~ Robert M. Drake