Quotes about poetry-quotes
Munia Khan -
Laugh until you crynever let your eyes look dryThis is not a matter of jokethis is all to provokeour sense of humourLife is its own consumer!
Avijeet Das -
Love will find you when you least expect it to it will find it in an unusual moment on a strange day!
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun
Faith is a question of eyesight even the blind can see that.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Creator
The world cannot be translated It can only be dreamed of and touched.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun
They grew they did not talk about growing.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Creator
Color is the overpowering of black white – the final victory over black.
Virginia Petrucci -
If only youcould see me as the Devil does: palatable & raw chasing a chance blue moon
Dejan Stojanovic -
I recreate myself that is my only power.
Basith -
The stars are but tears shed by a miriad of unrequited dreams each sparks with fire and guides its light homeward when a dream is revealed
Hafez - The Nightingales are Drunk
With wine beside a gently flowing brook - this is the bestWithdrawn from sorrow in some quiet nook - this is the best
Lang Leav - Lullabies
His Kiss:He has me at his every whim everything starts with him. To all the boys I used to kiss— everything stops with his.
W.H. Auden -
Hunger allows no choiceTo the citizen or the policeWe must love one another or die.
Munia Khan -
My pond life with hydra is over now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
With me: one minus one = one with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
You are not what you are You are darkness Looking for light within.
Dejan Stojanovic -
There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Even great men bow before the Sun it melts hubris into humility.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun
There are countless circles of hell believers never penetrate the ninth circle.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun
There are many secrets don’t try to resolve them all.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun
He confided his deepest secret to you be always wary of his secret.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun
He thought others were small that was his greatness.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun
Darkness does not age nothing is always nothing
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sun Watches the Sun
Unborn eternity does not die existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.
Sherman Kennon - Chase the Wind: A Book of Poetry
A lie is still a lieeven if it’s disguisedas the truth.
Munia Khan -
I believe the night I’ve never methides one elusive star I needto divide me between darkness and light
John E. Wordslinger -
The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn't shine
Santosh Lamichhane - Porridge Eaters and Gruel Drinkers: A Nepali Poetry Collection
Even in solitude,silence stays,like a loyal supporter,with its unbroken presence.
Sanober Khan -
I write because there are things in me that cannot die.
Micheline Jean Louis -
A Poet never denies creativity entrance.
Sanober Khan -
poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer - The Porcupine of Mind
Unforgiveness,splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree.Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.
Scott Hastie -
The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.
Scott Hastie -
I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze.
Sanober Khan -
love canembellish its beginningsing its blossomingand engrave its eternitiesbut can never explain its loss.
Sanober Khan -
When you left you left behind a fieldof silent flowers under a sky full of unstirred clouds...you left a million butterfliesmid-silky flutters You left like midnight rain against my dreaming ears Oh and how you left leaving my coffee scentless and my couch comfortless leaving upon my fingers the melting snow of you you left behind a calendar full of empty days and seasons full of aimless wanders leaving me alone with an armful of sunsets your reflection behind in every puddle your whispersupon e
Sanober Khan - a tempest
Tomorrow camewith the illusion of todayeven more fleeting than yesterdayit camelike it always comesand wentlike it’s always gonelike a favorite song in its final secondsTomorrow came and leftleaving nothingnothing...but a familiarlingeringsense of loss behind.
Sanober Khan - a tempest
most of the timesit’s the hardest to saywhat I love moreyouor your memory.
Sanober Khan - Turquoise Silence
give mea pillow of strongever-dependable shouldersthat i can bury my head in.
Emily Dickinson - The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-
Sanober Khan -
we are all like poems. some of us rhyme. some don’t. some are Pulitzer prizessome are just scribblesand yet, we all possessa special kind of beautythat can either heal or cut to the boneone that can never quitebe fathomed, nor forgotten.
Sanober Khan -
holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free.
Scott Hastie -
The searing light of morningAsks unwelcome questions,Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.
Nataša Nuit Pantović - Tree of Life
I see You, Every time I look into Buddha’s eyes. I give myself to You. Every time I alter one of Your 1,000s names. Honestly & fully I love You. Through Christ and Maria, Shiva and Shakti, Krishna and Radha, With every day that passes and every breath I take. I enter gratitude for receiving Your Love. Obeying Your Laws of Truthfulness and Ahimsa, Weaving Prana With hearts and souls of Gaia. Through mysticism, shamanism, sufism, and ecstatic meditations. I yearn to touch You, to feel You, to be Y
John Geddes - A Familiar Rain
...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night...
Sanober Khan - A Thousand Flamingos
for we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to.
Sanober Khan -
some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.
Sanober Khan - a tempest
what ismore beautifultears, in someone’s eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.
Sanober Khan -
wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.
Sanober Khan -
i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.
Paul Morabito - Mirrored Voices: Emerging Poets Anthology
Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.
Soar - poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes
Whenever I learn a new word, I feel strong, for I discover a new world. Whenever I share a word, I feel weak: I give away a sparkle of my dreams. (Soar)
Soar -
I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It’s a genuine vocabulary.
William Cowper - The Poetical Works Of William Cowper
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths allBolted against me.Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentenceWorse than Abiram's.Him the vindictive rod of angry JusticeSent quick and howling to the centre headlong;I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, amBuried above ground.
Sanober Khan -
How strange and ironic it is- all the words i long to sayare lost in words.
Sanober Khan -
A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds.
Delano Johnson - Rare Images of Love
Let thy words be few. I agree, but only if my ink can relentlessly run.
Sanober Khan -
in the endit is wordspoetry. sunsetssomeone’s deep blue silk voice.mountain scents.someone’s smile.eyes. that we haveno defenses against.
N'Zuri Za Austin -
Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.
Sanober Khan - Turquoise Silence
how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.
Sanober Khan -
Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity.
Sanober Khan -
sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.
Sanober Khan -
i am alwaysstalking you, my dear. with my thoughtsmy words.my breath.
Sanober Khan -
Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.
Sanober Khan -
Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles.
Sanober Khan -
everything that is scatteredcomes together in wordseverything that is lostcomes back in poetry.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
In greatness, life and death merge.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
From one bell all the bells toll.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
They are both spectacular, Life and death.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
I travel, always arriving in the same place.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one.
Dejan Stojanovic -
We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
Life eats life to live.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
Neither alive nor dead; No one lets up, No one wins.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
In the end, the world returns to a grain.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
Death swallows death.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sign and Its Children
Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sign and Its Children
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sign and Its Children
Nothing is part of everything.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Creator
From what you didn’t say, lies that you did say.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
I can see myself before myself—A being through dark scenery.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
The farther away, the closer the home becomes.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Sign and Its Children
If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.
Dejan Stojanovic - Circling: 1978-1987
You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Creator
The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.
Dejan Stojanovic - The Shape
He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.