Poetry Quotations Quotes & Sayings

She is the woman that contradicts Simone de Beauvoir's saying "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." She is the woman that makes your tooth pain seem like a trivial matter in comparison to the heartaches she causes as she deliberately passes by your side. She is the woman that makes your throat feel swollen and your tie to suddenly seem too tight. She is the woman that is able to take you to the seven heavens with a whisper; straight to cloud number nine.. She is the woman that erases all other women unintentionally and becomes without demanding the despot of your heart. She is the woman that sends you back and forth to purgatory and resurrects you with each unintended touch. She is the woman that will ask of you to burn Rome just to collect for her a handful of dust. — Malak El Halabi

You can't appreciate the world you live in and know if it's better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history. — Chris Dietzel

They only want to weep
As after the huge wars
Senseless huge wars
Huge senseless weeping. — Ted Hughes

If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity. — Munia Khan

Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them. — Morgan Dragonwillow

Be the man who has the spirit of a ruthless tiger, ravaging every dusty corner of my soul.
Be the man for whom I will tame myself voluntarily..
Be the man who can make me forget my birth date in moments of utter dellusion.
Be the man whose arms are my harbor, whose lips are my shore, and whose name is my only salvation.
Be the man who erases my past and draws my future with trails of roses and kisses.
Be the man who makes me sigh behind the windows of Poetry, longing to be written.
Be the man whose cigarette's ashes are confounded with mine.
Be the man whose voice moves mountains inside me.
Be the man whose eyes devour the innocence within me with every piercing glance.
Be the man for whom I will transform exceptions into rules.
Be the man who will dare to tear this poem from my hands.
The man who will rewrite with the uncertainty of the futur every single one of my verses. — Malak El Halabi

Even as I hold you
I think of you as someone gone
far, far away. Your eyes the color
of pennies in a bowl of dark honey
bringing sweet light to someone else
your black hair slipping through my fingers
is the flash of your head going
around a corner
your smile, breaking before me,
the flippant last turn
of a revolving door,
emptying you out, changed,
away from me.
Even as I hold you
I am letting go. — Alice Walker

Life breathes on its own without nostrils — Sandra Proto

Love is as we will it to be." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey

And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life. — Nicole Lyons

Old words are reborn with new faces. — Criss Jami

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

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky. — Chris Hemsworth

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty. — Dolly Parton

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. — Nicolas Chamfort

I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken glass
and looked at it
to see my dissolved face
a little prettier
I found a steep doorway
and entered
in order to close my exit.
From the poem 'Blue Stanzas — Munia Khan

Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight — Ovid

the crows are like a harrow to
unbroken ground they turn it loose
they give it air — Maurice Manning

there are no angels
brighter than dawn — Eugene Warren

As Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) pointed out, twilight 'is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.' Then again, maybe poetry's chief use is to inspire us to watch the sun go down. — Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.
A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss. — Sal Martinez

I can officially state that my government and myself believe that all over Europe we need to open a debate on the 'drug question' in order to create more coherent and human policies with better perspectives ... The policy of criminalizing consumers has failed, creating many problems to our society. — George Papandreou

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience ... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love? — Aberjhani

I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won't be long,
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration ... — Roman Payne

Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret? — Karen Thompson Walker

Obscurity is Japan's outermost defense. The country doesn't want to be understood. — David Mitchell

What you cannot lay to rest
Must therefore be laid aside

From the poem "Moors Child" published in the poetry collection "Cats and Other Myths — J.S. Watts

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe. — Carl Sandburg

When I was around 19 years old, working in the college library, I was talking to a friend of mine and this older woman interrupted and said "You're too young to know about Billie Holiday." My response was "I'm too young to know about Shakespeare, too ... should I not read him? — Wanda Lea Brayton

Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do. — Porochista Khakpour

Smile is your make up,angelic face
You light up the entire place — Patrick Cruz

We've begun to get justice. — Charles Evers

I love with love, so that we all may love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey