Poetry Quotes - Page 13

Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.

To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.
If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while.

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my audience is, I’m dead, I’m not going to make any money.

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.

Writing poetry is a state of free float

I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.

When magic through nerves and reason passes,
Imagination, force, and passion will thunder.
The portrait of the world is changed.

Vandals listen only when others are stronger.
If vandals are equal or stronger
Their word is the last word.

The world is always open,
Waiting to be discovered.

The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.