Poetry Quotes

The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:The moon is within me, and so is the sun.The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.So long as man clamors for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:When that comes, then work is put away.The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.The musk is in the deer, but is seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.

~ Kabir

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

~ Luanne Castle

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned

~ Alfred Tennyson

Let Your Inhibitions Run Free

~ Cindy Smith-Jordan

I was born to make mistakes, not to be perfect.

~ Ross Lynch

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.

~ Milan Kundera

You are capable of doing everything you are afraid of doing, If only you would energize and motivate the Magical thing would absolutely happen to you!

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

Athletes take care of their bodies. Writers must similarly take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. There is nourishment in books, other art, history, philosophies—in holiness and in mirth. It is in honest hands-on labor also; I don't mean to indicatea preference for the scholarly life. And it is in the green world—among people, and animals, and trees for that matter, if one genuinely cares about trees.

~ Mary Oliver

I fell in love with you in a hurry, like you were going somewhere fast - which you did. You came and went like an earthquake, like some sort of eclipse. I've spent hours, days, months, years missing you. But then something strange happened, and now I can't remember why I ever loved you at all. You didn't deserve it. I should have loved me more.

~ Christina Hart

What a cruel irony it is, that we get to choose our thoughts but not our feelings.

~ Justin Wetch

Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslythree old owls on a chest of drawerswere screwingthe daughter of the doctor.But then the mother called them,colorless green ideas slepp furiously.

~ Umberto Eco

You don't buy poetry. (Neither do I.)Why?You cannot afford it? Bosh! You spendEditions de luxe on a thirsty friend.You can buy any one of the poetry bunchFor the price you pay for a business lunch. Don't you suppose that a hungry head,Like an empty stomach, ought to be fed?Looking into myself, I find this true, So I hardly can figure it false in you.

~ Edmund Vance Cooke

do you dare to step in-to the vulnerable black, stripped to the soul with human blindness – when the full and weeping moon steps from the shade of a tumult of mountains – when, in the fragrant dim, day's tree stump transformsinto some nether-worldly other – when time's skin is thin and you arebared – when there is nothing between you and the Wildest Onewhose name is your own?

~ Beth Morey

I can look beyond the cloudsto feel your lovethe sun will rise againto end the darkness

~ April Nichole

A nation established under GodA nation that will only winif we stand together

~ April Nichole

Letting goI can have a firm foundationTo honor youAnd hold you in my heart

~ April Nichole

These hands will never go awaythey will scoop you up at anytimeanytime that you want to be loved

~ April Nichole

You are my strength when I am weakYou are my shield when I am hurtingWhatever you say unto me LordI will do

~ April Nichole

Look upward to himLook to him for everythingLook to him for answersLook to him for a listening ear

~ April Nichole

Look upward to himLook upward on our goalKeep your eyes on himLook upward to him

~ April Nichole

Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were bornLord, your love is amazing

~ April Nichole

My Lord, my God here are my words

~ April Nichole

You have my life,My heart,My soul in your hands

~ April Nichole

We need your patienceYour knowledgewe need your caring heart

~ April Nichole

You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you

~ April Nichole

These hands are unlike any otherstrongbut gentlecaringlovingand understanding

~ April Nichole

In another land there is gloryIn another land there is happinessIn another land we all get alongIn another land we will stand with others

~ April Nichole

Today I want to leave the worldI want to leave the painLeave the heartacheI know where it is goingI want to see my Savior

~ April Nichole

To be held in his armsI long for that dayThe da that I get to seemore wonderful things

~ April Nichole

We can hear your voiceWe can hear it through the songs of praiseWe can hear it through the birdsWe can hear it through the windWe can hear your voice in our heartsWe can hear your voice in our mindsWe can hear you through everyhing

~ April Nichole

Look upward to himLook to him for everythingLook to him for helpLook to him for comfort

~ April Nichole

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

~ Philip Larkin

TO ALL MANKINDSpeak kind wordsto mankindand the unkindwill attack you.Speak common senseusing any of your senses,and you will be attacked bythe senseless.Speak truth,and you will be attacked bythe untruthful.Speak about absolutely nothing,and absolutely nothingwill speak back,but then nothing at allwill ever change.

~ Suzy Kassem

Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves

~ Lady Grey

revenge was never my intention.-but it still tastes sweeter than honey

~ Amanda Lovelace

Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

~ David Joseph Cribbin

You are my drug of choiceI know you’re no good for meAnd though I swear my lipsWill never touch you againHere we are, here we are.

~ Justin Wetch

Call me obsessed, color me consumedI’ve always been the type to noticeThe smell of a rose in bloom,But let me confess, this is newYou’ve stopped my heart, let it resumeAnd I, to finish, must tell it trueI’m high on your perfume.

~ Justin Wetch

Love gives the best of highsBut also the worst of hangovers.

~ Justin Wetch

If the afternoon had been blue,there might have been less desire.

~ Carlos Drummond De Andrade