Poems Quotes - Page 11

Don't be afraid of poetry.

Clifton Fadiman

I wanted to write some words you'd remember.Words so alert they'd leap from the paper,crawl up your shoulder, lie by your ears,and purr themselves to you like baby kittens,but it was rainy, so I laid there and daydreamed about you.

a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.

Remembrance and reflection how allied!What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

Poems are difficult to silence.

Stephen Greenblatt

The townspeople took the prince for deadWhen he never returned with the dragon’s headWhen with her, he stayedShe thought he’d be too afraidBut he loved her too much instead.

Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart.

depth and substance.the two most exquisite qualities. be it in a poemor a person.

In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude.Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food.On which is your side?Ô, but tarry and bide,ere you decide,in both do confide.

Twas noontide of summer,And mid-time of night;And stars, in their orbits,Shone pale, thro' the lightOf the brighter, cold moon,'Mid planets her slaves,Herself in the Heavens,Her beam on the waves.I gazed awhileOn her cold smile;Too cold–too cold for me-There pass'd, as a shroud,A fleecy cloud,And I turned away to thee,Proud Evening Star,In thy glory afar,And dearer thy beam shall be;For joy to my heartIs the proud partThou bearest in Heaven at night,And more I admireThy distant fire,Than that colder, lowly light.

Edgar Allan Poe

Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

there are some poemsthat we leave behindsome that leave us behindwhile some just livesilentlyin the heartcrumble, sometimesdwindledisappeardieand are rebornwhen you smile again.

TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

APPLY WITHINYou once told meYou wanted to findYourself in the world -And I told you toFirst apply within,To discover the worldwithin you.You once told meYou wanted to saveThe world from all its wars -And I told you toFirst save yourselfFrom the world,And all the warsYou put yourselfThrough.APPLY WITHIN by Suzy Kassem

There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity

Mina Loy

a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,when I don't know, if you will ever come back.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.

How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity.

Emily Dickinson

there's always been a little sadnessinside my happiness.i've never been able to separate the two.

Ava

you wanted it all to make senseand you wanted the most complicated answer, but the answer is simple.just be.

Ava

love is my thighs,this belly,my eyes.love is my speech,the search,my cry.love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.

Ava

woman-another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word for being.another word for me.

Ava

the woman is rain,and when she falls,she is a monsoon.to love her is to drown.

Ava

oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful tender weight of being human.

Ava

i would've done anything to make you happy.i think you knew that.i think this is why you knew you had to let me go.

Ava

you'd take one look at me and whole pieces of the earth would break off and fall away finally leaving me alone with you.

Ava

i do not know how to live tepidly.i was never built to fit in.i live by my souland my soul is insane.

Ava

through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away.

Ava

it is hard not to count the hoursi have left with you.it is hard to be here now--knowing everything between uswill come to an end.

Ava

keep following your heart.it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.

Ava

i am learning that when love wants to stay it will stay.i am learning that when love wants to go it will go.

Ava

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--alone, waiting for the things that stay.

Ava

there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.

Ava

i let you love me.i let you take care of me.i let you do things to meno one was allowed to do before.

Ava

they say people only hear what they want to hear,but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon.

Ava

i am not a jealous person,but when i am with you,the thought of someone elsepulling your attention away from mekills me a little insideeach time.

Ava

you need to be careful with me.i fall in loveand i fall in love forever.

Ava

let me tell you i'm in love with you. let me tell you that the first thing i do when i wake is think of you. let me be completely honest about this-- about what you mean to me.let me take it there without ruining everything.

Ava

i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeing how you would break my heart.

Ava

stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are.

Ava

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone. who could i love more than this peace?

Ava

you came in slowly like the fog and consumed me.

Ava

love is myself in the mirror.i will see love every time.

Ava

things keep falling in and out of place.this is the universe's way of taking care of me.

Ava

there is a difference betweenloneliness and solitude,one will empty you andone will fill you.you have the power to choose.

Ava

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.who could i love more than this peace?

Ava

i am a womanand i am alone,and i cannot tellwhich one of the twoi love being more.

Ava

i am like the moon--sometimes, full.sometimes, black.sometimes,forever and ever alone.

Ava

i open for you like a flower.i let you in like a new day.

Ava

woman--another word for beginning.another word for revolution.another word for healing.another word for being.another word for me.

Ava

show me all the parts of youthat you do not loveso i know where to begin.

Ava

you came in slowly like the fogand consumed me.

Ava

i want so much to touch youwhere my hands cannot.

Ava

hold company with yourself so sacredthat even when you are alone,you are whole.

Ava

some people are so deepyou fall into themand you never stop falling.

Ava

i over love.i under love.i am either a floodor i am nothing.

Ava

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