Poetry Quotes - Page 10

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

That tingle in the brain is called a word.
It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.

I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page.

Only the poet truly understands what is written between the pregnant pauses they create.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, so what happens when the person's eyes are unavailable to look into? You read their words.

Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory.

I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen.

as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?

and everyone wants to read the poem
we’re afraid to write.

I have witness the stars brighter
than a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write 'until death do us part.

I will not stop singing
the Muses who set me dancing.

And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.

It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?

Writing an unwritten thing, read the unreadable.

A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.