Poet Quotes Quotes & Sayings

The universe on your skin is empty
from all the silence on your tongue.
Forgive yourself. Let your body heal
from all the wounds you did not inflict
on yourself. Drop the sword you carry
on your shoulder for self-defense.
Lower the armor you hold high up
for protection. Those who harmed you
are not going to come back. Those who
have left never intended to return. — Akif Kichloo

Paint in blue and black ... sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ... — John Geddes

A poet has a sacred duty. He has to hear unsung songs and see unseen beauty. — Debasish Mridha

to be a poet means
to live
with a permanent wound

forever
susceptible
to either

the shade
of the sky

or someone's eyes. — Sanober Khan

A great Tamil poet, given to decadence and debauchery, once said that the story of his life could serve as an example to the youth on how one should
not live. Having lived, or rather, having sleepwalked for ten years through the desolate wastelands of depression, I survived to reach the other side. I believe that this validates my claim to write this book for you. — Indu Muralidharan

Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we all got along. If there were no terrorism, Islamophobia, Western hypocrisy, corrupt government in African countries (especially Liberia), sexism, nativism, people like Donald Trump, stereotypes, war, Capitalism, Communism, Marxism and xenophobia. — Henry Johnson Jr

The Poets light but Lamps-
Themselves-go out- — Emily Dickinson

Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm. — Danabelle Gutierrez

When the hatred stops will the love begin? When there is no more greed will there then be peace? — Sherman Kennon

The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy. — Jason E. Hodges

Birds are the eyes of Heaven. — Suzy Kassem

I was born one thousand times and all the while it was you I met again to only meet again under the thousand stars that divide us and connect us. — Christina Strigas

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 — Luke Davies

So they're your favorite lines, then?" I press my lips to her forehead. "My dear baby blue. Both of those quotes are about you." I pause while she looks shocked. "Hey, see I'm a poet too. — Karina Halle

To be a poet in today's technological age means to be underrated and at times, ignored. In a world where the noise of industry reigns supreme, the poet's voice is being drowned out, but it is a voice that is desperately needed. Our words ring out into the atmosphere and calls the masses back to their senses. We must seize this opportunity and remain true to our purpose in society. Ours is a most noble duty, here to represent the misunderstood and underrepresented, and one day, one person will heed the call of our words and the world will be set ablaze! — Dara Reidyr

YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING. — Amy King

As a writer, a poet, you're not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you. — Jason E. Hodges

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, 'You are a genius, my love!' To which I replied, 'My girl,' whispering, 'Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I. — Roman Payne

(1)BEING A POET
is like opening a car door
& exposing yourself.
(2)BEING A GOOD POET
is like opening the door
& exposing the passenger
as well. — Chocolate Waters

The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality. — Christina Strigas

What a lover's heart knows let no man's brain dispute. — Aberjhani

Understand the poem not the poet. — Christina Strigas

There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.
Or die trying — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Love is like a magic trick
You know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in line
And pay to see it again and again. — Yarro Rai

We cannot see the best things in life, we can only feel them. A poet tries to describe those indescribable feelings in a language of emotions and inner perceptions. — Debasish Mridha

I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing. — Anne Carson

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world. — Sanober Khan

An artist is like a handicap
he needs his art to carry himself. — Yarro Rai

A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings. — Debasish Mridha

Closed eyes cannot see light — Andrea L'Artiste

This longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem ... must be you ... — John Geddes

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover. — Munia Khan

A robust Liberian middle-class fosters the advancement of social wealth and a well-educated Liberian society. — Henry Johnson Jr

A poet adds the awe factor to our ordinary perceptions. — Debasish Mridha

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader's mind with the ecstasy of joy. — Debasish Mridha

A Writer in Love.

I was just a word weaver
What did I know of love?

Only that
Some days when the words weren't enough,
I knew
I was in love. — Saiber

I was born with my eyes turned inward. — David Joseph Cribbin

The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal

When the night
comes to break my heart,
I think of you. — Akif Kichloo

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!
O falling fire and piercing cry
and panic, and a weak mailed fist
clenched ignorant against the sky! — Elizabeth Bishop

A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return. — Henry Johnson Jr

Love doesn't make you a poet; it makes you poetry. — Yarro Rai

So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny! — Avijeet Das

If you can't be the poet, be the poem. — David Carradine

Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought. — Bernard Jan

Catch my heart and take my Hand to find yourself some Big Time Love. — Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine, The

There is something so innocent about blank pages
That I can't lie to them about my existence — Yarro Rai

I'm passing the bar
Where you first got in my car
I'm not ashamed to admit
That it's you I won't forget

I saved your cigarettes and
Bad habits I regret
But the hours flew by like clouds
Whenever I had you around

Parachute lover
Take me away
From the plane that went crashing
And the earth that's in flames

Saving you is saving me
High above the redwood trees
But down below I see shadows
And parachute debris

We're drifting like children
Along for the ride
Each time we find love
Another parachute arrives

Our madness will burn
As bright as the sun
And I'll keep finding lovers
But you were the one — Crystal Woods

Humans have the ability to rewrite history. Within a few decades it is not even questioned. Stories of the past become as real as the world you walk through today. Wars are waged over false history. Sins are denied. All for mankind to move forward and feel comfortable about its past. Your true history is written in the stars. Look up, breathe in, and be humbled by the ones who came before you. The ones who have suffered, who have endured, who have overcome. Their blood is alive in you. Their spirits roam freely in the heavens above. — Jason E. Hodges

I'm burning in despair
Love which you distanced from me
Return once again
I'll forgive you again
Return, Page 19 — Delicious David

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

So I don't think I'll make Poet Laureate,
but I swear I'm not twisted and bitter,
If finely-wrought talents
don't weigh in the balance,
I can always write haiku on Twitter. — Rosy Cole

They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality. — Elizabeth Blade

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. — Jason E. Hodges

They came and they left.
You cried, but you stood your ground.
You stayed tethered to hope as well as
committed to dignified dreams
and little victories of day-to-day life.

You felt different.
Then you started to change.
Your smile returned with reticence
before completely taking over your face.

Today, you are no longer afraid to let that smile be there,
and now you understand it was not about them.
It was never about anyone else.
This was about you from the day you were born.
This was about you learning to love yourself -
not letting the inferiority of the external corrupt
the piety of the internal.

This was your personal revolution.
This was the uprising of your lifetime.

And you won. — Akif Kichloo

If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture. — Andrea L'Artiste

we were never a match;
always a marvelous misfit. — Akif Kichloo

I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light. — Sherman Kennon

You made a poet fall in love with the world. — Avijeet Das

A poet is a silent singer; he sings the deep songs of the soul silently. — Debasish Mridha

You can't break up with a soul mate. — Christina Strigas

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language. — Debasish Mridha

I get into beatific cornucopia when I delve into books, coffee, and wanderings! — Avijeet Das

A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society. — Jason E. Hodges

Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody
has held me and no hands have strayed and even
though I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

Put a girl in
moonlight
and tell only truths
and every man
becomes a poet. — Atticus Poetry

Someone asked me when is my birthday?
The poet inside me replied,
My birthday is on the last day of the year,
It's 31st December my dear! — Anamika Mishra

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing. — Countee Cullen

YOUR WORDS ARE MADE OF THE AIR I BREATHE. — Amy King

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions! — Darnaya Darice

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Write to Inspire. Write to Express. Write to Live. — The Refined Poet

A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words. — Debasish Mridha

Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free! — Avijeet Das

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. — Emily Dickinson

Sometimes it's great, and sometimes it's shit.

These are the things all the great philosophers

just won't tell you flat out about life.

You keep moving, keep living, keep breathing

And you keep writing-creating because that's what you do

And that's who you are. There are no magical voices to guide

You except your own. Make it count.





~ R.M. ENGELHARDT — R.M. Engelhardt

Tickle my heart with your pen. Write me for all to read. Bind our love inside a book. Make me your poetry. — N'Zuri Za Austin

I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them. — Christina Strigas

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character. — Avijeet Das

So often we confuse mistakes for soul mates, lessons for
lovers, and at the same time worthy life partners for one-night stands.

It's an epidemic. — Akif Kichloo

Daisy, simple and discreet flower,
That earned the heart of this poet. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth. — Julio Cortazar

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him. — Plato

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

There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
His words spoke truth and pen's stroke was bold,
His only motive: lives to mould — Adhish Mazumder

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer. — Agona Apell

We all knew she needed help.
But none of us knew how.
And none of us could swallow our pride and just ask her what she needed.
I don't know why.
Maybe we were too ashamed we didn't know how to approach our own mother.

So we let the years slip unhappily past us and hoped we would never inherit the misery embedded in her soul.

But I did.

And I didn't know how to say it aloud.
And I still don't. — Stacy Morris

I am poetry in motion — Jazar Kahr

Language is artificial, but our feelings are natural, inner, and universal. There are many languages, but feelings are the same for everyone. We can only describe it in different ways. A poet tries to sing the song of these feelings in different tunes with different music mixing with the inner emotions of the reader. — Debasish Mridha

I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look! — Gayathri Jayakumar

Some days I don't know what is greater.
My wisdom, or my stupidity. — Sanober Khan

Poet
To mask the fiery thought,
in simple words succeeds.
For still the craft of genius is,
To mask a king in weeds — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I understand loud and clearly, with my sound mind — Andrea L'Artiste

Like a Rubik's Cube, I have many configurations; Do not just assume that you have "figured" me out, just because you've seen one side. — Andrea L'Artiste

poems are small moments of enlightenment — Natalie Goldberg

Poetry lets me pour out my various emotions even the suppressed ones we didn't know exist inside us' til the moment you start jotting down what you're feeling. It's more than an escape into the unknown, a refuge for your creativity and sometimes wild imagination not all ordinary, ungifted people like us understand. -Elizabeth's Quotes — Elizabeth E. Castillo

Ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink. — Melissa Lee-Houghton