Poem Quotes
Julio Cortázar
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.
2905 Paul Valéry
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
2562 Jess C. Scott
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
4590 Santosh Kalwar
See mirror, every time you will miss me and look deeper into your eyes till you will find me.
4105 Shel Silverstein
Magic
Sandra’s seen a leprechaun,
Eddie touched a troll,
Laurie danced with witches once,
Charlie found some goblins gold.
Donald heard a mermaid sing,
Susy spied an elf,
But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.
2941 Shel Silverstein
Early bird
Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird
And catch the worm for your breakfast plate.
If you’re a bird, be an early bird -
But if you’re a worm, sleep late.
1229 Santosh Kalwar
It is when things are at worst you will get the best.
1517 Scott Hastie
To have been where you have been
And to still have joy,
Dazzling in your heart,
Now there’s a thing to make the whole world smile.
4837 Scott Hastie
The light needs only our trust
And, of course, the darkness
To work its eternal alchemy.
4651 Charles Bukowski
girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
deserve them
besides
there is
no way
I would welcome
the
intolerable
dull
senseless hell
you would bring
me
and
I wish you
luck
in bed
and
out
but not
in
mine
than
3978 Roman Payne
With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.
2329 Ted Hughes
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.
1919 Dejan Stojanovic
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
4554 Oksana Rus
I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am a soil and a gem. I am a stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul.
4014 Oksana Rus
Your whispers are gentle echoes that sway ardent winds of harmony and in the symphony of life each word is wrapped in rhapsody... Dance with me within the wind... Let me love You...
1748 Michael Bassey Johnson
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
1114 D. Antoinette Foy
I am in awe of flowers.
Not because of their colors,
but because even though they
have dirt in their roots,
they still grow.
They still bloom.
4857 Munia Khan
The world of light and starry grace;
within your mind I live to trace.
Your thought’s speed in thunder’s glory,
lightening my being with dream’s story.
I embrace the tree carrying your name
Your unspoken wish : the heart of fame.
4276 D. Antoinette Foy
My heart's scripture tastes
foreign in the mouths of
cowards and on the tongues of
those who have never breathed in
the moon and breathed out the world.
4995 Evelyn Leilou Colon
The adversary humbly cloaked in its fine smile 'eyes devoid of kindness, speaking gentle its knife secretly hidden.
4002 D. Antoinette Foy
I wear the universe backwards.
I imagine putting stars in my
coffee, and sugar in the sky.
I imagine going fishing in clouds,
and watching the sun hide
behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing
with my imagination to even tip toe
with reality for a second.
They say I'm going mad.
They're right.
3784 D. Antoinette Foy
The core of your
true self
is never lost.
Let go of all the
pretending and
the becoming
you've done just
to belong.
Curl up with your
rawness and come home.
You don't have to
find yourself;
you just have to
let yourself in.
3920 D. Antoinette Foy
The sky never falls with the rain.
It is never weighed down by all that
it carries. It takes all of its anchors
and turns them into stars.
Learn from this.
2532 D. Antoinette Foy
Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.
4116 D. Antoinette Foy
Life is so beautiful and so short
that anything that makes me feel
less than too much is nothing at all.
4048 Esther Spurrill Jones
Poem
Words from the heart
Breaking, teaching, healing
The deepest, purest form of art
Feeling
2960 Charles Bukowski
I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub
3991 D. Antoinette Foy
Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.
4664 Aniruddha Sastikar
Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.
4678 Dejan Stojanovic
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
4780 Kevin Fuller
We write about love like we should be bound in padded rooms.
3034 Billy Collins
The fly lands on the swatter.
The movie runs backwards
and catches fire in the projector.
This species apes us well
by talking only about itself
2799 Maggie Stiefvater
It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand. Something that makes them feel strong or clever. It's why they love the ocean.
4242 Wallace Stegner
Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.
2326 Shel Silverstein
I'd rather play tennis than go to the dentist.
I'd rather play soccer than go to the doctor.
I'd rather play Hurk than go to work.
Hurk? Hurk? What's Hurk?
I don't know, but it must be better than work.
4662 Henry Miller
Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him.
3784 Kandi Dougherty
This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.
4912 Tanzy Sayadi
I fought for you, I fought for us
I fought for the memories and the laughter that came upon us,
Now here we are, we have become unknown people to each other,
Worlds apart in an instant, for what once was is now gone
So tell me what your secret is to letting go like you did.
3234 Archive
Why are you so scared and creeping around,
taking photographs all over town,
pictures in the dark that live in the light,
the world is my playground too and I’ll do what I like.
1527 Dylan Thomas
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.
1798 Andrea Gibson
I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
4007 Edwin Markham
He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In !
From the poem " Outwitted
2040 Simone Elkeles
Nobody really knows her
Except the chosen few
Her secrets are kept hidden
Behind that sun-kissed hue.
If I reach out to touch her
She’ll just run away
My Forever and Always
Will have to wait another day.
2520 Robert W. Service
There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
2101 Nizar Qabbani
Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook
2396 Hasil Paudyal
May be its mine bad-luck
Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being yours
3386 Langston Hughes
LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.
4356 Ryokan
Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.
2458 Kehinde Sonola
That’s the thing about love
It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you
And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person
4639 William Knox
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?
2113 Scott Hastie
Sacred space in which
To distil, like amber,
The best of your love.
4822 Scott Hastie
For every moment of suffering,
Others will arrive
That will instead pierce you with joy.
1588 Scott Hastie
Every new day
Our children's joy is as fresh as roses,
Even the birds chatter at dawn.
2519 Scott Hastie
On the canvas of life,
Every sweep of the brush matters,
Counts for something…
4791 Charles Bukowski
she slammed the door and
was gone.
I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone.
4612 Santosh Kalwar
A foolish man question: “what is love?” A madman answer: “Love is an omnipresent attribute of human life. Our appetite will always be unfulfilled for love. It is better for us because without it, earth will not rotate, seasons will not change, birds will not sing and life will not exit.” What do you think?
1254 Alice Fulton
It's just me throwing myself at you,
romance as usual, us times us,
not lust but moxibustion,
a substance burning close
to the body as possible
without risk of immolation.
1074 Lee Argus
Through the darkest hours of the night
and through the dreamers realm I seek,
Far beyond the starry sky
and beyond galaxies I am free.
Through the grimmest memories
and past a seasons air I cannot breathe,
Far beyond this mortal world
in an afterlife we shall meet.
3014 Santosh Kalwar
I am 15 and you are 51, I know you are the best, to be loved by, everyone.
3388 Clive Barker
Here is a list of terrible things,
The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before,
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.
3532 Charles Bukowski
the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.
3236 Caleb Warta
Just know I am
Not there to catch you
But I am there for you
2257 Archibald MacLeish
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
4687 Charles Bukowski
having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
4745 Charles Bukowski
I paid, got up, walked
to the door, opened
it.
I heard the man
say, "that guy's
nuts."
out on the street I
walked north
feeling
curiously
honored.
4094 William Wordsworth
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.
3311 Hasil Paudyal
Dreaming of getting you
I loosed everything
Cheerfulness of smile
And all the dreams of life
3912 Hasil Paudyal
Give me another Chance
Then,
You will Get
Less than I Gain...
4300 Charles Bukowski
sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and the hours, days, weeks
years
seem wasted –
stretched there upon my bed
in the dark
looking upward at the ceiling
i get what many will consider an
obnoxious thought:
it’s still nice to be
Bukowski.
1151 Rick Riordan
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.
3503 Mary Oliver
to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go
2171 Stephen Dunn
I've tried
to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.
3525 Charles Bukowski
when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns
3862 Brian Jacques
So here is my story, may it bring
Some smiles and a tear or so,
It happened once upon a time,
Far away, and long ago,
Outside the night wind keens and wails,
Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!
1749 Pablo Neruda
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
2786 Rubén Darío
You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.
4282 Virginia Woolf
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
3689 Karen Joy Fowler
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.
2284 Langston Hughes
Cheap little rhymes
A cheap little tune
Are sometimes as dangerous
As a sliver of the moon.
3001 Craig Ferguson
Twas the night before Thanksgiving.
All the food's in the oven.
And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.
1247 Stephen Dunn
Connubial
Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware of - this tic, that
tendency, like the way I've mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt -
I knew I was in danger
of being terribly understood.
3337 Jean Cocteau
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
2965 Mark Strand
Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
2214 Leonard Cohen
I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.
If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips
it is because I hear a man climb stairs
and clear his throat outside our door.
4380 Robert Wells
I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.
Another life is never safely envied.
4123 Cecily Von Ziegesar
Open the fridge and put
My heart on a plate.
I'm just as you left
me, and I taste even better
leftover.
1812 Roman Payne
Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride.
3370 Luke Davies
I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act.
We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.”
-In the yellow time of pollen
4430 Melissa Lee-Houghton
I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
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