Poets Quotes

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

~ E.m. Forster

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

~ Jess C. Scott

When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall grasses,and even elephantslumber after safety.When great trees fallin forests,small things recoil into silence,their senseseroded beyond fear.When great souls die,the air around us becomeslight, rare, sterile.We breathe, briefly.Our eyes, briefly,see witha hurtful clarity.Our memory, suddenly sharpened,examines,gnaws on kind wordsunsaid,promised walksnever taken.Great souls die andour reality, bound tothem, takes leave of us.Our souls,dependent upon theirnurture,now shrink, wizened.Our minds, formedand informed by theirradiance,fall away.We are not so much maddenedas reduced to the unutterable ignoranceof dark, coldcaves.And when great souls die,after a period peace blooms,slowly and alwaysirregularly. Spaces fillwith a kind ofsoothing electric vibration.Our senses, restored, neverto be the same, whisper to us.They existed. They existed.We can be. Be and bebetter. For they existed.

~ Maya Angelou

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

~ Jacob Nordby

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

They grew, they did not talk about growing.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner, nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the wages,Why, you must bear the task.I worked for a menial's hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have paid.

~ Jessie B. Rittenhouse

A poet is not an apostle, he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?

~ William Knox

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without it.

~ Jane Kenyon

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

God is busy and has no time for you.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

When following God, Zero we never find.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The world is God's salvation.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.

~ Benny Bellamacina

We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.

~ Michael Meade

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

~ Sanober Khan

To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.

~ Sanober Khan

the intensityin your eyesburns my penas i write.

~ Sanober Khan

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is hardly one of his female figures that is so,—the latter being mostly representative of woman in her part as mother, or sufferer, or prophetess or poetess, or in old age, or in any aspect of strength or tenderness, except that which associates itself especially with romantic love. Yet the cleanliness and dignity of Michel Angelo's male figures are incontestable, and bear striking witness to that nobility of the sentiment in him, which we have already seen illustrated in his sonnets.

~ Edward Carpenter

i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.

~ Sanober Khan

She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.

~ Barbara Pym

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

~ Allen Ginsberg

Hope without love is hopeless.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning—We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.

~ Joy Harjo

we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.

~ Ava

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.

~ Ava

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

~ Rick Yancey

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

~ Ernest Hemingway