Poet Quotes
Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.
our love likestepping on to a planesitting down in a carwalking on unknown land will either take us to where we belongor throw us into darkness
Winning is a matter of endurance. As long as you don't quit, you will win!
My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.
Aspirations don’t make poets, perseverance does. Flow with the emotions, let your imagination soar, find what ignites the fire within and let it go wild.
Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.
I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.
The different kinds of work require different people to perform the task. You must fulfil your specific task.
To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!
All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.
Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.
I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.
Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression
The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.
A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren’t enough, I knewI was in love.
Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.
The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.
Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.
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.
Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.
My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.
Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.
I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried.
A lie is still a lieeven if it’s disguisedas the truth.
The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment.
Satisfaction doesn't come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.
Everything is temporary but the power of Love is Infinite because it is the space, it is Everything.
Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration.
Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.
The natural consequence of being connected to the depth, what I call the soul, or your essence, is the attribute of joy.
Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.
...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...
Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.
Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development