Quotes by Poets - Page 419

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.
George Gordon Byron
I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.
Sylvia Plath
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
Paul Valéry
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
Charles Bukowski
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
Jorge Luis Borges
Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.
Margaret Atwood
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
Sylvia Plath
great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I made it.
Charles Bukowski
No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.
Ishmael Reed
I hate writing, I love having written.
Dorothy Parker
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
Sharon Olds
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann Hesse
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis
A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth
let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
Sylvia Plath
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Jack Kerouac
When you are here, God is near.
Kamand Kojouri
Your love brought me closer to God.
Kamand Kojouri
A soulmate is a direct pathway to God.
Kamand Kojouri
God’s existence is reaffirmed once we fall in with another.
Kamand Kojouri
We don’t find Godin temples and cathedrals.We don’t find Himby standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a pew.God appears when welove someone other than ourselves.And we continue to feel His presence when we do good for others.Because God is not foundin mosques and synagogues.He resides in ourhearts.
Kamand Kojouri
The rather difficult antagonists towards the Church consist not nearly of the cruel and heartless, nihilistic intellectuals who hate God and humanity, but the well-meaning spirits who for the most part lack an understanding of the Spirit.
Criss Jami
Out of the darkness, out of the night,May I find joy and all that is right:Open my eyes, so I'll see the lightThat comes when we have spiritual sight.~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, "Infinite Spirit, Abide With Me" (1940's)
Gertrude Tooley Buckingham
Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. Perhaps that is a little strange, yes, but in all honesty, I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a smug aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.
Criss Jami
Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.
Kamand Kojouri
Your omnipresence is marvellous!I breathe and you enter me.I exhale and enter into you.
Kamand Kojouri
I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have the power not to shuffle away from the Faith, the power to break loose from these marching-shackles of ongoing cultural and political pretense.
Criss Jami
God has been FAITHFUL to me, in Him I have FAITH.
Gift Gugu Mona
God has been FAITHFUL to me, that why I have FAITH in Him.
Gift Gugu Mona
God has been FAITHFUL to me, He still is and always will be; that's why I have FAITH in Him.
Gift Gugu Mona
How can you be a lover of loveand not be a lover of God?It is impossible.
Kamand Kojouri
Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves.
Kamand Kojouri
Is it 'Stockholm syndrome' when your God has never once misguided your steps? I think not! Let the lost ones dart across the darkness, bashing into walls, pretending to love their ways as we delight in obedience to the footsteps of Christ which bring us to freedom. By Faith we wander - not because we are lost, but because we are free.
Criss Jami
It is not enough that you look for Him.You must hunt for God each and every dayas if your life depends on it.Because it does.
Kamand Kojouri
It is wonderful, this whole business of tickling and kissing God every night.
Kamand Kojouri
As soon as we are born we hide God in ourselves.We then spend our lives looking for Himwhen all along, He has been concealed behind the veil of 'I'.
Kamand Kojouri
You made a writer keep faith in his pen.
Avijeet Das
Someone once said to me, 'There are so many religions in the world. They can't all be right.' And my reply was, 'Well, they can't all be wrong either.' All religions in the world today share more commonalities than differences, yet language blinds many from seeing these truths. Some people will tell me that what I write about is straight from their holy book, but the truth is that the main principles found in all holy books were already engraved in all our hearts. If you think common sense, the golden rule and knowing right from wrong are exclusive only to your faith, then you need to open yourself up to the rest of the world's religions.
Suzy Kassem
The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.
Mīrābāī
Put down your stones. Why are you breaking the window when God has left the door wide open? If you are afraid, lover, follow me. I will guide the way.
Kamand Kojouri
I shall not commit the grievous sin of losing faith in Man
Rabindranath Tagore
Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems impossible, Faith makes it possible.
Gift Gugu Mona
Stand like a beaten anvil, when thy dreamIs laid upon thee, golden from the fire.Flinch not, though heavily through that furnace-gleamThe black forge-hammers fall on thy desire.Demoniac giants round thee seem to loom.'Tis but the world-smiths heaving to and fro.Stand like a beaten anvil. Take the doomTheir ponderous weapons deal thee, blow on blow.Needful to truth as dew-fall to the flowerIs this wild wrath and this implacable scorn.For every pang, new beauty, and new power,Burning blood-red shall on thy heart be born.Stand like a beaten anvil. Let earth's wrongBeat on that iron and ring back in song.
Alfred Noyes
Trials are a measure of your faith, so be courageous when going through trials in life.
Gift Gugu Mona
Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
If you want to find God, then all you need to do is love.
Kamand Kojouri
I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible goal, a journey that lasted a long time: how to love a God who hurts you.
Carol Lynn Pearson
Faith is when you choose to trust the Lord, even when there's a lot at stake.
Gift Gugu Mona
One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes — destroying everything that separates you from the Lover. Once you taste the fruit of this vine, you will be kicked out of the city of yourself. You will forget the world. You will forget yourself. I tell you: you will become a madman who wanders the streets looking for the Lover once you drink this Wine of Love.
Kamand Kojouri
Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.
Kamand Kojouri
The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.
Kamand Kojouri
I am humbled by the grace of God.I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.Humbled by others' kindness.Humbled by life.I drop down to my knees and give thanks.
Kamand Kojouri
Never let fear control you, let faith take control.
Gift Gugu Mona
When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.
Imran Bughio
Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems possible, Faith makes it possible.
Gift Gugu Mona
Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.
Jack Kerouac