Poets Quotes

We write to go on living, after we have died.

~ Jenim Dibie

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read I love you.

~ Jenim Dibie

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.

~ Jenim Dibie

If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could we possibly write under a ban on reading? The only way left is mouth-to-mouth – poets and storytellers recite their pieces and before we can commit them to memory, everything vanishes into thin air.

~ Kyoko Yoshida

A single poem, alonecan turn tidesscatter galaxiesand burst forth with riversfrom paradise.

~ Sanober Khan

Watch, how the sunslowly risesfrom behind my earnew lines, new countriesspring up in my palmsmy rough hairbecome swaying silkand all the leavesin my bodybecome lusher than fruits.

~ Sanober Khan

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

They say that history is going on somewhere.They say it won't stop. I have heldOne picture still for a long time and waited.

~ William Stafford

Nothing is inanimate, what is the rest is our interpretation.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

What we call life is only talk of nature.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.

~ Mary Oliver

For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent.

~ Debasish Mridha

You are alone,So alone,You speak back to silence.People call it loneliness,You call it solitude,Different words,Meaning the same pain.

~ Jenim Dibie

You ask me to write you a poem,I pen you an empty ocean,You run away.You ask me who I am,I paint you a breaking sky,You weep in the rain.

~ Jenim Dibie

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

~ John Berryman

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.

~ Kate Christensen

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

~ John Berryman

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song,in my lilac dawn.

~ Sanober Khan

Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to  readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meaning and open to various interpretations. Unlike prose, there is no boundary to poetry. There is nothing concrete or black and white. Poetry is mutable; it is transformative. Poetry is the alchemy of hearts. And what cannot be said in prose can sometimes be only said through poetry.

~ Salil Jha

I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I mess up the laundry, don’t answer my phone and blame the world when something goes wrong. I think I have a dream, but most of the days I’m still sleeping. The grass is cut. It smells like strawberries. Today I finished four books and cleaned my drawers. Do you believe in a God? Can I tell you about Icarus? How he flew too close to the sun?I want to make coming home your favourite part of the day. I want to leave tiny little words lingering in your mind, on nights when you’re far away and can’t sleep. I want to make everything around us beautiful; make small things mean a little more. Make you feel a little more. A little better, a little lighter. The coffee is warm, this cup is yours. I want to be someone you can’t live without.I want to be someone you can’t live without.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Loveis not leaning on each other, adjusting to fit a different size.Loveis simply two hands reached out in the darkness,saying; I’ll be your light, if you’ll be mine.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I wish to stay drenchedforeverin those rain-blue eyesin those...soul-reaching crystalsnot moving a musclenor breathingjustsavoringthis turquoise acheagainst my heart.

~ Sanober Khan

I am filled time and againwith a heart-aching wonder when I thinkof the fireand frost of memoriesof the everlastingnessof lovethe solace of familyand the power of prayer.

~ Sanober Khan

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy

~ Christina Rossetti

My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.

~ Munia Khan

And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness

~ Amit Gupta

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

The world is a fairy tale, we are its guardians.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming.

~ Munia Khan

Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour all emotions into your work…make yourself cry, feel joy if you are writing joyful things, feel lovey if it calls for it…just put your heart and soul into all that you do…then you will be a good writer when you can make whoever reads your work, feel. -Nina Jean Slack

~ Nina Jean Slack

Although my road to writing seems like it may have come easily, there were a few bumps in that road. I didn’t get a lot of encouragement from friends, although my family were great supporters. I also had many…what you would call “mind-boggling” moments, when I would doubt myself and what I was writing. It has been said that we, ourselves, are our own worst critics.All the hard work had payed off though, and I created a children’s book that I am proud of, and an unforgettable little girl that will touch the hearts of many.”-Nina Jean Slack

~ Nina Jean Slack

Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.

~ John Fogarty

You askif I will write a poemI could,I supposewrite the mostsplendiferousone of allbut notrightnownot whenyour handsare brewingwarmcinnamon teaacross my skinnot when I’mtrying to imaginewhat might happenif you beganfloweringkissesuponmeMy dear,how canI writea poemwhen I’m alreadyinside one?

~ Sanober Khan

You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, Be still. Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, I love you.

~ Shannon L. Alder