Poet Quotes

Natural elegance inspires the mind.

Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

To hold the courage to let another witness our tears, while refuting fears invitation to shield face, is to grant the most privileged of all loving intimacies to them.

I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.

i am open + free to create in abundance. i am deserving of my own love + it comes in the form of art.

Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.

Poets and children, " said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that.

Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate

He was surrounded by love, and he used that power to create.

i am my religion. my belief is love. god is within [self].

A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

The bell tolls with a painful note afarWhen man drops in the dreadful jaws of deathBut human beasts watch death with mouth ajarWhile lifeless church bell feels the pangs of death

17. We live on this earth till we die one dayThough we crave to live, death doth make its swayNone can stop it, thou nor I from its wayNor tears of kith and kin keeps it away

Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

Only the power of light illuminates our thoughts and our being.

Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.

Love is the true wealth, which can do entirely without wealth.

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

Quoth the Raven, " said a glitching voice from the phone. "Nevermore, " said the man. "Then the game has started

Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.

It was in that small lack of movement that Poet could see true horror. A mirror held up to the human race and how it can be manipulated. Ruined.

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.

Cosmos and its stars

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

In MoonlightNoSoft sweet paw on my cheekNoFur curled under my chinJustA sad space left behind - Gray cat gone away. [Ellie's poem]

Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

I try to think of metaphors that suit him best, but he was made of the sea and the stars and the sun, and one wouldn’t do him justice.

We all have the same pallet of emotional paints. It is how we pigment them on the canvas of life that dictates our artistry.

I do so love hearing people speak passionately on any subject, other than themselves.

You claim to love God, and yet you disobey GodThis is a bizarre way of reasoningSurely, the lover, if his love is true, Is most obedient to the one he loves.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

The first and the last steps on the ladder of life are the most insightful.

Everyone should follow his predetermined path.

The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.

A versifier’s poem is born by the sound

In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.

It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.

Allen Ginsberg instructs: "First thought, best thought." Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.

I am poetry in motion

The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.

Disappointment is the end of an illusion.