Poetry Quotes

Tongue on your words to taste you thereCouldn’t   read what youhad never written therePlayed your message overfeeling badPlayed your message over it was all I hadTo tell me what and whereforethis is what it said:I’m tired of you asking me whyI’m tired of words like the chatter of birdsGive me a pass, let me just get by

~ Adrienne Rich

A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren’t enough,I knewI was in love.

~ Saiber

Zoe let the poetry flow over her, like shadows on water, sunlight against stone: timeworn words shaped like stars, like shells, like the ruins of lost temples, soft as the breaths of mystics.

~ Christine Brodien-Jones

Let thy words be few. I agree, but only if my ink can relentlessly run.

~ Delano Johnson

I am not sad anymore. I am not weak or tender or quiet like you remember because the second you said those words and closed that door, I sold my soul to the part of myself I had buried in order to love you, to let you touch every inch of my rotten body, for I wanted to be touchable and not so strange. Not so sad and tender, like I’ve always been, they say, so I changed. And then your glances and words throwing knives with no return about my change of habits and ways of living, being, and I nodded and smiled, dying silently a little bit inside.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I write these words to touch you,My love, In places my hands can only dream of.

~ Jenim Dibie

O, let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast;Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.

~ William Shakespeare

in the endit is wordspoetry. sunsetssomeone’s deep blue silk voice.mountain scents.someone’s smile.eyes. that we haveno defenses against.

~ Sanober Khan

One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked.

~ Delano Johnson

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

~ Monroe Ariel

How strange and ironic it is- all the words i long to sayare lost in words.

~ Sanober Khan

A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds.

~ Sanober Khan

Poems are word paintings. Poetry doesn’t belong to time. That’s why often you feel as if poems are speaking directly to you.

~ Salil Jha

words are a border collie’s worst nightmare.

~ Thomas Lloyd Qualls

It was more than a string of letters put togetherit was a thick cloak in the coldand a strong defense against an enemyIt was more than the naked heart on paperit was a way to undress sadness … and sinsand an olive branch for the desperateWriting was her prayer and the words were felt.

~ M.j. Abraham

how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.

~ Sanober Khan

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

~ Jenim Dibie

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

~ Jenim Dibie

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity.

~ Sanober Khan

I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.

~ Shannon L. Alder

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

~ Sanober Khan

i am alwaysstalking you, my dear. with my thoughtsmy words.my breath.

~ Sanober Khan

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

~ Sanober Khan

The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

~ Jasper Fforde

…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

~ Jasper Fforde

Another one of your quippy japes?

~ Jasper Fforde

Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.

~ Jasper Fforde

for we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to.

~ Sanober Khan

some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.

~ Sanober Khan

what ismore beautifultears, in someone’s eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.

~ Sanober Khan

wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.

~ Sanober Khan

I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen.

~ M.j. Abraham

i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.

~ Sanober Khan

Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

~ Paul Morabito

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

~ Lenore Kandel

My words will be my legacy, etched in heartfelt honesty upon the pages of time.

~ Callum Mclaughlin

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them asingle word: Home.

~ Mahmoud Darwish

You do not need words to tell the truth.

~ Mia Hollow

I belong to clever words and bedtime storieseven a good riddle or twoI belong to the sound of musicand dance to my own rhythmI belong to the sunlight on a chilly autumn daywhen the world awaits a new beginningI belong by the shore under a star-filled skywith the ocean caressing my feetI belong everywhere.And anyway I please.

~ M.j. Abraham