Poet Quotes
Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.
We, writers & poets, have a big problem. We swim too deep inside life, also in shallow waters, and then we end touching the sand!
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.
Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?” “I've never been accused of poetry before.
Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.
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.
Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.
I tossed a stone into the Sea To see what it would do for me And the ripples went out And became ocean waves To return to the Sea inside of me
Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!O falling fire and piercing cryand panic, and a weak mailed fistclenched ignorant against the sky!
If a muscleman like Hukum can write a poem, everyone can.
One has to commit a painting, ' said Degas, 'the way one commits a crime.
How—I didn't know anyword for it—how "unlikely". . .How had I come to be here, like them, and overheara cry of pain that could havegot loud and worse but hadn't?
Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.
I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.
Tonight, I won't dream, because nobodyhas held me and no hands have strayed and eventhough I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty.
Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.
I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.
Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.
Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.
Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.
You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate.
I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.
His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection.
Catch my heart and take my Hand to find yourself some Big Time Love.
In you I see an immaculate woman full of feminine grace and untarnished beauty.
Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration.
She was walking into doors againA regular habit so it seems"From the Domestic
The world holds two classes of men--intelligent men without religion, and religious men withoutintelligence.poet
The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.
Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!
Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.
Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta
It always felt as though there were a shaken beehive living in my chest. I could never rest.
You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.
Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.