Quotes Tagged "poets-and-poetry"

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

Poets aren't very useful, because they aren't consumeful or very produceful.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Life is a river

Natural Beauty This is the nation of peas with oceans, rivers, ponds and seas The beautiful vegetable farms people helping arms in arms hand in hands the beach with water and sand the bright sun children playing and running the bright, colourful rainbow, birds sing sweet trees green the beautiful thing you have ever seen!

the intensity in your eyes burns my pen as i write.

She once told me that she stalks me day and night She has me in her feelings and in her sight... Her heart keeps telling me things in the night that she is afraid to tell me in daylight... My heart know that she loves me But life is strange and we never know where two people will end up next Love and soul are not to behold Her eyes speak in unknown words And we continue to drift sometimes nearer and sometimes apart!!

A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

Dear Muse, I was just now standing in the balcony and watching the rain drops fall from the sky and suddenly I felt this beautiful feeling. The magical feeling that you are in my life. You came into my life and you have made my life truly special. How many people can say that they receive unconditional love from a beautiful and inspiring girl? A girl who writes amazingly well. A girl who who is achingly pretty and totally kind. When you are near her, she touches the innermost corners of your heart. Before she arrives she brings with her the fragrance of a million jasmines. A girl who is the tenderness of the rose petals. A girl who is the magic of a full moon night! Yours sincerely,

The Most beautiful thing is to see a person you love smiling. And even more beautiful is knowing that you are the reason behind it.

I am more interested in the insecure transparency in you than the pretentious character. Naked is surreal, it may make you feel vulnerable for a while yet it will take us on a journey worth remembering.

Know that love would stick no matter how hard you are to break into, know that love would stick no matter how protective you have become of your own self. Love would find its way like nothing ever has.

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.