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I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. - Pablo Neruda
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. - Cassandra Clare
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent -Victor hugo
We love the things we love for what they are. -Robert Frost
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. -Kahlil Gibran
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life -Mary Oliver
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. -Sarah Williams
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. -Leonardo da Vinci
Resist much, obey little. -Walt Whitman
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. -Robert Frost
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G.K. Chesterton
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. -Kahlil Gibran
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. -Walt Whitman
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. -Sylvia Plath
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. - T.S. Eliot
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. -Charles Darwin
You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face - Ian Fleming
Always be a poet, even in prose. - Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is what gets lost in translation. - Robert Frost
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. - Charles Bukowski
What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. -Kobayashi Issa
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? -Vincent Willem van Gogh
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. - William Shakespeare
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. -Rick Riordan
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. -T.S. Eliot
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it - Gustave Flaubert
Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings. - W.H. Auden
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. -Osip Mandelstam
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. - Derek Walcott
Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other. - Kobayashi Issa
Lovers alone wear sunlight. -E.E. Cummings
listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go. - E.E. Cummings
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -Dylan Thomas
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. -Wallace Stevens
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Music is the universal language of mankind. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -Virginia Woolf
Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. -Rainer Maria Rilke
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. - Charlotte Bronte
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -Kahlil Gibran
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1) - William Shakespeare
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. - William Faulkner
We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye. - Pablo Neruda
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along - Gwendolyn Brooks
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. -Rainer Maria Rilke
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. -Arthur Rimbaud
The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. - Robinson Jeffers
you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you -Nayyirah Waheed
Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. - John Green
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!†- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The poetry of the earth is never dead - John Keats
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. - Edgar Allan Poe
some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about. -Charles Bukowski
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings. - Mary Oliver
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami
Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends. -Aberjhani
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. - Robert Frost
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T.S. Eliot
may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. -E.E. Cummings
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. -Khalil Gibran
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. - Leonard Cohen
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. -Rainer Maria Rilke,
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good. - W. H. Auden
Peace is always beautiful. -Walt Whitman
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may not bless my waking eyes. -Anne Brontë
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. -Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. - Kahlil Gibran
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong. -W. H. Auden
do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you -Rupi Kaur
It was at that age that poetry came in search of me. - Pablo Neruda
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart) - E.E. Cummings
There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors. - Jim Morrison
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. -Walt Whitman
A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. - Emily Dickinson
It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise. - Sara Teasdale
I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face. - Anne Sexton
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. -Khalil Gibran
I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I made up lies So that they all fit nice, And I made this sad world A par-a-dise. -Kurt Vonnegut
We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names. -Nikita Gill
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? -Charles Bukowski,
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
your hand touching mine. this is how galaxies collide. - Sanober Khan
The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. - Robert Frost
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. -Edgar Allan Poe
You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye -Margaret Atwood
I would love to say that you make me weak in the knees but to be quite upfront and completely truthful you make my body forget it has knees at all. -Tyler Knott Gregson
Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. -Ursula K. Le Guin
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. -W.H. Auden
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. - William Shakespeare
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty - Pablo Neruda
Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.†-Louise Glück
I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting. -Judith Minty
What can be explained is not poetry. - W.B. Yeats
You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart. -Wystan Hugh Auden
She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on. - robert m drake
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. -Edgar Allan Poe
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. - John Keats
Life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree’s summit. -John Keats
