I have found so much beauty in the dark,as I have found a lot of horror in the light.

~ Azereth Skivel

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Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.

~ Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

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Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

~ Muse

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Black was the without eyeBlack the within tongueBlack was the heartBlack the liver, black the lungsUnable to suck in lightBlack the blood in its loud tunnelBlack the bowels packed in furnaceBlack too the musclesStriving to pull out into the lightBlack the nerves, black the brainWith its tombed visionsBlack also the soul, the huge stammerOf the cry that, swelling, could notPronounce its sun.

~ Ted Hughes

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When Darkness surrounds you, look for the stars. When Jealousy whispers, kill it with laughter. When Hate hurts you, love with all your strength.

~ M.j. Abraham

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Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.The wind moves like a wounded animal.The ground must be full of teeth by now.

~ Cecilia Llompart

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I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching, We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away.

~ Emily Dickinson

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Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad netstowards your oceanic eyes.There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames,its arms turning like a drowning man's.I send out red signals across your absent eyesthat smell like the sea or the beach by a lighthouse.You keep only darkness, my distant female,from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.Leaning into the afternoons I fling my sad netsto that sea that is thrashed by your oceanic eyes.The birds of night peck at the first starsthat flash like my soul when I love you.The night gallops on its shadowy mareshedding blue tassels over the land.

~ Pablo Neruda

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Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.

~ Sylvia Plath

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I am lost in my world,invisible - unknown.Moon please lend meyour light that someonewill me see me.

~ Susie Clevenger

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Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?

~ Theodore Roethke

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... only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane...

~ John Geddes

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Beloved, Dearest One:How I long to shout to the world our happiness. I feel that you and I are the only two people alive in the world - the only people that know the secret meaning of existence.I have no diamond rings, no gifts of love that other lovers have for their beloved. My poetry is all I have to offer you. And so I dedicate my collected verses, 'Poems of Poverty,' to you, beloved.Morris.

~ Anzia Yezierska

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I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcryand whose arrival announces to men the season when fieldsare plowed, and the voice of her broke the heart that darkens within me,since other men posess my flourishing acres now,and not for me are the mules dragging the plow through the grainland,since I have given my heart to the restless seafarer's life.

~ Theognis

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5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn’t get much easier.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.

~ Keelie Breanna

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Poets, Writers . . . know that we are the enchanting magicians that nourishes the seeds of dreams and thoughts . . . it is our words that entice the hearts and minds of others to believe there is something grand about the possibilities that life has to offer and our words tease it forth into action . . . for you are the Poet, the Writer to whom the Gift of Words has been entrusted . . . wsp

~ William S. Peters

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We write because the blank piece of paper and the pen are there. We write because this is our addiction and we are proud of it. Our habit, our drug, our crutch. Whatever you wish to call it. We write because since an early age we felt it deep in our souls and in our bones. The poem must be written, the story must be told and the new myths and Gods are waiting for you to bring them forth from out of the darkness and to bring them into the light of being. You are a creator, so create. You are the writer. So write.

~ R.m. Engelhardt (Talon)

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She had her image… and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood on to paper—and this is the release that all writers, even the feeblest, seek for as men seek for love; and, having found it, they doze off happily into dreams and trouble their hearts no further.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

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It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

~ Sanober Khan

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This winter, there will be no voices, no glimpses, no arms.only the fabric of poetry, to keep me warm.

~ Sanober Khan

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How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.

~ Sanober Khan

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to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone's eyes.

~ Sanober Khan

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may this poetrybe the homeyou will someday come back to.

~ Sanober Khan

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and everyone wants to read the poem we’re afraid to write.

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

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my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

~ Sanober Khan

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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs.

~ George Jean Nathan

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When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

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To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

~ Grace Paley

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As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.

~ Helen Bevington

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The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

~ Charles Bukowski

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them

~ George Bernard Shaw

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Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker, they need it to take the edge off.

~ Kellie Elmore

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They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more.

~ Malcolm Cowley

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To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

~ Richard Hugo

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If I live...I will live unafraid...I will live so all can see,I am not ashamed of who I am or what I'm designed to be!-The Great Mephisto

~ Daniel Von Der Ahe

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You are now 18standing on the precipice,trembling before your own greatness.This is your call to leap.There will always being those who say you are too young and delicate to make anything happen for yourself. They don’t see the part of you that smolders.Don’t let their doubting drown out the sound of your own heartbeat.You are the first drop of a hurricane.Your bravery builds beyond youYou are needed by all the little girls still living in secret, writing oceans made of monsters andthrowing like lightening.You don’t need to grow up to find greatness.You are stronger than the world has ever believed you to be.The world is waiting for you to set it on fireTrust in yourselfand burn.

~ Clementine Von Radics

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