Poet Quotes - Page 8

You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anything civilized. There's a part of me that has never heard of a telephone.

When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on the Master's hand. Often when you think everything has gone wrong, it's just that you're in the middle of a story. If you watch the stories God is weaving in your life, you... will begin to see the patterns. You'll become a poet, sensitive to your Father's voice.

Loveis not leaning on each other, adjusting to fit a different size.Loveis simply two hands reached out in the darkness,saying; I’ll be your light, if you’ll be mine.

Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things.

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.

Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.

Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night

So often we confuse mistakes for soul mates, lessons forlovers, and at the same time worthy life partners for one-night stands. It’s an epidemic.

The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

When in love, every soul becomes a poet.

A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

I was born with my eyes turned inward.

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.

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

Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.

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.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

I loved you for a thousand years and missed you in all of them.

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.

Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!

Poetry for me is a result of lyrical meditation, pre-verbal in origin, and much of the craft has to do with finding a contemporary diction that embodies, at times subverts but never betrays that pre-verbal lyrical source: the presence of song before it is sung.

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.

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.

I write to understand what I know.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

Live for everything, or die for nothing

And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a daily exercise of adventuring, even in the stillness of his own garden? I mean, the poet.

Being poet is my choicesless choice.

The history of time is captured by poet, artist, writer, photographer…!

He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then.

When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.

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

This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;And as imagination bodies forthThe forms of things unknown, the poet's penTurns them to shapes and gives to airy nothingA local habitation and a name.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

I’ve never pondered my own life until I started watching fictional ones fight for theirs.

The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power - otherwise, if they knew how to speak well on one topic thanks to a skill, they would know how to speak about every other topic too.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in the nights and are entwined in rocking delight perform a solemn task and gather sweetness, depth, and strength for the song of some future poet, who will appear in order to say ecstasies that are unsayable.

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

In the hours waking,when we're still all still,and you can hear the floorboards creaking,and you can feel the shades blow in,the night we slept with,we'll never kiss like that again.Our lips, will sever, our memories, will dissipate,and our shadows will be swallowed by the sky.

Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.Make your lives extraordinary

A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming.

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

Such is a communityof inviolable immunity, protectedfrom tampering or harpooningmutiny. Every better thinker’s impulse to shrink us (at the shoreline from our lifeblood’s deep pulse) uses disparaging scrutiny to sink us.

The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

Only when you see the flower for what it is, you can see it's true beauty

A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.

For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?

What broke your heart so badThat you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soulAnd can't utter the word 'love' anymore?

THREE BASIC TRUTHSThree things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.Three things are needed For humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant.