Poet Quotes - Page 4

There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.

I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. I'm not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I simply share what I do in my spare time. All poetry springs from genuine feelings. I'm only a woman expressing herself to the world.

Tammy-Louise Wilkins

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.

Charlotte Eriksson

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The Lone Star of Africa Land of the free, on your beach and sacred forests loves flourished. You, Liberia, you my love to echo, the scream of freedom, holding tight and will never let go. O beautiful land, The Lone star for decades has survived wars and tribalism the elders who keep the ancestral treasures that resulted in Vandalism. When will morning break for great leaders to stand for what is right Mother Liberia?

Henry Johnson Jr

Early in her career, Muse engaged her skills for technical purposes, such as document translation and schematic visualizations for government entities. She continued to write and paint poetically, in secret, using her pen name, Muse. An inner compass is evident in her work. Pieces reflect both past and present dilemmas; while showcasing her victories in overcoming these obstacles ~ all from her faith based perspective. Light touches of modernism play hand in hand with old world strokes, offering highly visceral readings.

Earl M. Coleman

A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return.

Henry Johnson Jr

Don`t you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you.

Vaishnavi Hajari

There is something so innocent about blank pagesThat I can't lie to them about my existence

Yarro Rai

I have battled with loneliness. I have battled with insecurity and rootlessness. But I have never given up the struggle. I have never quit trying in life.

I am as disillusioned with the number of likes for one's posts on social networking sites as I am with the number of followers in one's social network. A great number of people liking your work does not prove your mettle as a writer or as an artiste!If my work can affect even one person and make him/her think then I am satisfied as a writer.

A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of the beauty we each bring to our respective space(s). It leaves us all less fulfilled and enlightened.

Shirley Houston

So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!

Poetry is and should not be explained It’s not a theory not a formula or a set patternIt’s a labyrinth of reflection with no source of image

Yarro Rai

You came into my life like the rain to the parched desert!

You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

Being poet is my choicesless choice.

TRIPURARI

I'm a poet and It's my choiceless choice.

TRIPURARI

Being poet is my choiceless choice.

TRIPURARI

Earth is crammed with heaven, and every bush is aflame with the glory of God. But only those who see take of their shoes; the rest just pick the berries.

Elizabeth Browning

Birds are the eyes of Heaven.

... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ...

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Natalie Goldberg

I was born with my eyes turned inward.

David Joseph Cribbin

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

Jason E. Hodges

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.

Jason E. Hodges

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?

Jason E. Hodges

The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.

Jason E. Hodges

Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing.

Jason E. Hodges

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.

Jason E. Hodges

We all knew she needed help.But none of us knew how.And none of us could swallow our pride and just ask her what she needed.I don’t know why.Maybe we were too ashamed we didn’t know how to approach our own mother.So we let the years slip unhappily past us and hoped we would never inherit the misery embedded in her soul.But I did.And I didn’t know how to say it aloud. And I still don’t.

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.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world holds two classes of men--intelligent men without religion, and religious men withoutintelligence.poet

~ Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri

Many women have tried to compare to you, but they are only flawed imitations. You deserve the worlds admiration.

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

In you I see an immaculate woman full of feminine grace and untarnished beauty.

I crave for knowledge. I envy tolerant, peaceful folks. I am frightened by ignorance. I loathe violence.

tsegaye gebre medhin

His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection.

Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

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.

Hemingway is overrated,Twain is even more lost at sea,And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,Where both her whispers and her screams,Are born.Pour another glass, Beer, wine, whiskey,I don't care,So long as its wisdom is sharp,And it tells lies instead of promises.

If you should see/a man/walking down a crowded street/ talking aloud/ to himself don't run/in the opposite direction but run toward him/for he is a poet! You have nothing to fear/from a poet but the truth

Ted Joans

If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of it soaked in mud. It's warm and it stinks like shit and it's unaccountably and endlessly good. It's thick and it goes on for miles and it isn't so much deep as bottomless and it holds you in its grip, you never drown. And then it goes. That's all you know.

You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate.

Approaching the Start of Civil ExamsPerhaps I was once a young Chinese scholarapproaching the start of civil exams,my mind grown weary and sad from seclusionwith books on syntax and poetic style.All that I knew were the mist-covered mountainsand sweet white blossoms of mountain applesthat grew in the valleys of my province.But I had been gone over six yearsbusy with studies in the Heavenly Cityempty and thin despite my work.I showed my verses to an older poetwho told me a truth I longed to believe:all knowledge is futile and barrenwhich does not open the love of your friends.

Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.

Yarro Rai

In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

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