Poetry Quotes

This poem inspired me to write my eBook.The Miller's Daughter by Alfred Lord TennysonAnd I would be the necklace, And all day long to fall and rise Upon her balmy bosom, With her laughter or her sighs; And I would lie so light, so light, I scarce should be unclasp’d at night.

~ Ellen Read

No matter how many times I break...I will repair.No matter how many times I tear...I will sew. -From Towards Peace in a More Natural Order

~ Isabel Marcheselli

Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.

~ Sanober Khan

Look athow deeply flawedwe areand yet capable of lovingso perfectly.

~ Sanober Khan

When we were kids I begged cupid to come and shoot me.

~ Delano Johnson

As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment...

~ David Berman

Poetry fights against the injustice of this world. Poetry's truths are ageless.

~ Delano Johnson

Poetry listens to me when I am silent and understands me when no one else seems to be able to.

~ Delano Johnson

I love poetry, but I often wonder how poetry feels about me.

~ Delano Johnson

As I string, a swift rhythm is played out with my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many of the poor workers, the meter and rhythm of stringing tobacco is the only poetry they’ve ever known.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

To me and the rest of the world your poetry is a gift.

~ Delano Johnson

A rebel to what’s cool, I don't follow trends, maybe that’s why I don't have many friends, but I know my destination.

~ Delano Johnson

Be yourself. Trust me, you don’t want to be anyone else because they are not you and you are special.

~ Delano Johnson

If only I had wings, I would not hesitate to fly away from my mistakes.

~ Delano Johnson

The dictionary feeds me daily, thesaurus always adds the gravy, big words I bite, so very tasty.

~ Delano Johnson

Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again!

~ Delano Johnson

Miracles happen, lyrical inhalation of poetry, you will not stop my words from breathing.

~ Delano Johnson

Only God and His angels can hear our hearts duet.

~ Delano Johnson

Mountains clothed in snowRobed in white against blue skiesMirrored in the lake.

~ Timothy Salter

To them, eternal life beginsAnd God Himself shall wipe away all tears.

~ Timothy Salter

O Weep No More ForMe When I Am Gone!

~ Timothy Salter

Failure has a hacksaw to my anklesand right now there is nothingI want more than to learnhow to walk on my hands.

~ Jen Lynn Anderson

I am a poem in progresswith no clear beginning or endingjust a middleuntended, unintended,unfinished, hanging therelike the breath before a question

~ Jen Lynn Anderson

I wouldn't mindif life left me...winglessburnt to cindersripped by stormsscattered...like weedscelestially woundedwithout cherry blossomsto perish withbut I would crywith head held in my handsif it left me...unfulfilled.

~ Sanober Khan

for all I can really do isstand herein September’s rainsavoring…soaking it all inslipping..and simplyholding on to poetryfor dear life.

~ Sanober Khan

love is always moving towards you

~ Sondra Faye

I am going to hurt you.You are going to hurt me.But we will do it with practiced fingersand passionate mouthsand I swear to godit will be worth something.

~ Trista Mateer

At the end of the day all we ever need is something that helped pass the time and something that keeps time from passing.

~ Sanober Khan

Like a speeding trainI am passing by...I don’t knowwhere I’m headingwith whom or whyall I know is thatI will never, everpass from here againall I know is I’m skidding forwardon this track of life.

~ Sanober Khan

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

~ Jason E. Hodges

Poetry is not difficult. If you possess one of the five senses, poetry is in it. If you can compose text message, tweet or Facebook status, you can write poetry. If you can rap a song, you can rhyme poetry. If you can memorise a prayer, you can recite poetry. If you struggle to make sense of formatted text, poetry is your call.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

I am a tale, I am a book, written in different languages and styles I can’t be read, can’t be understood,neither by me nor the greatest of minds I am too big, I am too small, to be processed or seen by the naked eyeI am too dim, I am too bright, to appear in the shadows or the sunshine.

~ Sanober Khan

leave me a smilejust warm enough...to spend a milliongolden afternoons in.

~ Sanober Khan

I want you to crave the crisp ocean breezeas much as I do.I want your soul to beas rain-swept as mine.

~ Sanober Khan

As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feetinto the night’s velvet slippersI settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.

~ Sanober Khan

I live there...Far above the song-filled clouds,where the dewdrops touch my skin so bareI live there.

~ Sanober Khan

kisses happenwhen my morning blueberry muffin sails slowly upon my savoring tongue.

~ Sanober Khan

i can’t always tell what’s betterlong drivesin the star-spangled desertsor long walksalong winding tea gardens.

~ Sanober Khan

I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time.

~ Sanober Khan

Give mea moon-blanket nightto keep me warma long-gone smileto comfort mea pair of rain-blue eyesto haunt mea simple soul...to love me.

~ Sanober Khan