Poetry Quotes

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--alone, waiting for the things that stay.

~ Ava

there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.

~ Ava

i let you love me.i let you take care of me.i let you do things to meno one was allowed to do before.

~ Ava

they say people only hear what they want to hear,but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon.

~ Ava

i am not a jealous person,but when i am with you,the thought of someone elsepulling your attention away from mekills me a little insideeach time.

~ Ava

through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away.

~ Ava

it is hard not to count the hoursi have left with you.it is hard to be here now--knowing everything between uswill come to an end.

~ Ava

oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful tender weight of being human.

~ Ava

i would've done anything to make you happy.i think you knew that.i think this is why you knew you had to let me go.

~ Ava

you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you.

~ Ava

i do not know how to live tepidly.i was never built to fit in.i live by my souland my soul is insane.

~ Ava

Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

love is my thighs,this belly,my eyes.love is my speech,the search,my cry.love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.

~ Ava

woman-another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word for being.another word for me.

~ Ava

the woman is rain,and when she falls,she is a monsoon.to love her is to drown.

~ Ava

you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.

~ Ava

there's always been a little sadnessinside my happiness.i've never been able to separate the two.

~ Ava

A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence.

~ Debasish Mridha

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

~ Cassandra Clare

The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

~ Robert Frost

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

~ Sarah Williams

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Resist much, obey little.

~ Walt Whitman

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

~ G.k. Chesterton

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes,over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers.Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –over and over announcing your placein the family of things.

~ Mary Oliver

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead, I lift my eyes and all is born again.

~ Sylvia Plath

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

~ T.s. Eliot

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

~ Seamus Heaney

Always be a poet, even in prose.

~ Charles Baudelaire

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

~ Charles Baudelaire

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

~ Rick Riordan

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more

~ George Gordon Byron

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

~ William Shakespeare

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

~ Sarah Williams