Poetry Quotes

So we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light,Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

~ Ted Hughes

ContrastsThe windows of my poetry are wide open on the boulevards and in the shop windowsShineThe precious stones of lightListen to the violins of the limousines and the xylophones of the linotypesThe sketcher washes with the hand-towel of the skyAll is color spotsAnd the hats of the women passing by are comets in the conflagration of the eveningUnity There's no more unityAll the clocks now read midnight after being set back ten minutesThere's no more time.There's no more money.In the ChamberThey are spoiling the marvelous elements of raw material(Contrasts)

~ Blaise Cendrars

...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...

~ John Geddes

...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...

~ John Geddes

She doesn't trust easily, but when she does it's always with the devil himself.

~ Melody Lee

i DO NOT WHY BUT i KEEP THINKING OF YOU, WHAT DID YOU EVER DO TO ME?I have tried na nikashindwa kukudelete from my system, IMEKATAA.i KNOW YOU HAVE TRIED TOO, IT LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT IS THESE.It can only be explained by the gods.

~ Hanimoz Obey

give mea pillow of strongever-dependable shouldersthat i can bury my head in.

~ Sanober Khan

Forgive me that I felt forsaken, That grief and angst was all I knew. Forgive me that I kept mistaking Too many other men for you.

~ Anna Akhmatova

Paradise is no whim.It takes time and trust,You see.

~ Scott Hastie

I want you to judge me without thinking about it.I want you to give me advice without considering my opinion.I want you to expecting anything without the need to trust me.I want you to decide for me with all the care in the world.I want you to help me without smothering me.I want you to decide without seeing my point of view.I want you to hug me without holding me...I want you to feel protected in my presence without me having to lie.I want you to be close without suffocating me.I want you to know everything without knowing anything...I want you to know that both love and friendship should always be Unconditional.

~ Stefan Dimov

One probably hears about it.One, wire, recognizes.One holds her bones up next to each other.One insists, grinding the clutch.One would powder and powder.One would ask out of the back of the throat.One refuses.One is so sad.One is helpful all of a sudden.One turns.One shimmers; hiccups.One puts on a tie and keeps finding a place for his hands.One breathes the old purple.One nods because no one speaks loud enough anymore.One doesn't approve, but trusts.One is so sure.

~ Jennifer Clarvoe

Poetry is born, When the relationships begin to melt on the slow flame of the eyes.

~ Tripurari

I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow.

~ Charles Bukowski

When I touch you, it makes me trembling.I feel like I've lost myself, existentially.Your lips on mine makes me feel likeI'm flying across the universe, without aimlessly.

~ Tamara Stamenkovic

her grass seemed greener until a drought cameand cracked the earth beneath you.

~ K.y. Robinson

Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.

~ Pleasefindthis

It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be. With no effort or trying, just slowly finding each other’s hands in the dark. No chains or promises, just a simple sign of hopethat things will go on and get better.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Though we met at the same station,we were but passing trains;on parallel lines,destined to never meet.

~ Timothy Joshua

Love Just HappensLove just happensWhen you are not looking for it,Not paying attention,Unaware.You could miss it the first few times,But then, unexpectedly, Somehow this invisible magnetic energyPulls you and another person together.And you feel this beautiful magic,Like a gravitational force -As if the moon were kissing the sun.And their name,Becomes the most hypnotic nameAnd you die to see their eyesWhen you open yoursEvery time.Love just happensWhen you least expect itAt any locationAt any time.It never announces its arrivalBut when it does find youIts warmth is so strongIt may frighten youYou could close your eyes and feel itAnd feel themNo matter where you areOr they areEvery time.Love just happensAnd it happens to everybody.But some people have their sensors off,Or hide from it,Or constantly look for it.Just don't think about it.Open your heart and it will find you.It always does.Whenever you think it forgot about you,It will hit you.Just like that – Every time.Love just happens.

~ Suzy Kassem

I am still trying and trying to exorcise youbut you cling to me like mud or bloodstains,like a battlefield fought in my imaginationevery day that I raise my pen against the swordyou used to slice my heart into small, bitter pieces.

~ Miriam Joy

She’s all the blood I’ve ever shed. She’s every time I’ve ever thought of death. She’s every time I’ve ever looked at happiness and thought, ‘That’s not meant for me.

~ Elijah Noble El

I moonlight as the greatest actor. I smile. I choose the comedy mask every time. I tell those who worry that I am fine, that I always will be. There is nothing to gain from these lies. I win no awards, yet I bow. On that stage I tell my life story with the lightest of words, the heaviest of hearts. I bleed for the people who stay and watch. Behold: the comedy, the tragedy. They smile and cheer. They clap for this. And I bow, and I bow, and I bow.

~ Elijah Noble El

But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wifewhich made me worse. I howled in my cell.If the Devil is gone then how could this be hell?

~ Carol Ann Duffy

I'd Drown For YouI opened my heart to youA complete immersionI offered my soul to youA heavenly diversion

~ Muse

Dear Lover,Your laughter is warm rain, and you are the rainbow.

~ Lori Jenessa Nelson

Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice.

~ Elizabeth Brooks

People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

~ Anthony Liccione

My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My endless love is expressed with more than just my words, my love is lived as a verb.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peace

~ Donna Goddard

Love is who you are.

~ Earthschool Harmony

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.

~ Scott Hastie

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze.

~ Scott Hastie

On the canvas of life,Every sweep of the brush matters,Counts for something…

~ Scott Hastie

Since it has quietly began to snow,new distances have awakened within me.

~ Gerrit Achterberg

A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.

~ Will Advise

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you.

~ Richard Siken

Unforgiveness,splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree.Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Farewell to thee! but not farewellTo all my fondest thoughts of thee:Within my heart they still shall dwell,And they shall cheer and comfort me.

~ Anne Brontë

i smile. things taken for granted have a way of catching you offguard when you least expect it, and then you're taken by what the portuguese calls saudade, a sense of longing for something, someone not there anymore.

~ Yeow Kai Chai

Pages burnt, memories buried, I wakeor think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?

~ Yong Shu Hoong