Poetry Quote Quotes

“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;
but a hidden star can still be smiling
at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling”
― Munia Khan

“Poetry is breathing words that give a reader pause.”
― Ankita Singhal

“Suddenly it's December and you're not 17 anymore. And you haven't been 17 for a very long time, but sometimes you need to remind yourself.”
― Margaux I Paul

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping on broken glass - bleeds, recoils, then steps again.”
― Traci Lea LaRussa

“She traced an imaginary line
On the endlessly nocturnal sky.
Only to locate the north
Which seemed so near,
Yet so far.
For the compass she had
Was cracked and broken.”
― Ruqayya Shaheed Khan

“i am scared i will blow away
too far from who i was
and not end up
at who i want to be”
― Karli Crispin, poems written by a late bloomer

“Your authority and sovereign rule breaks down the walls;
The demon's fortress in every mind falls.”
― Cali Willette, Fractures of Gold

“I'm stronger than titanium, tungsten, or steel;
In prayer to You I blaze as I kneel.”
― Cali Willette, Fractures of Gold

“i hope so dearly i can find one. a bone
that is as large as the city. as timeless as poems,
and damned poets; a magic.”
― Admer Balingan, metamorphosis

“from "Here is My Body": "Invisible, on our lake, our dreamscape, the old blue heron lands. Beak of my hunger. Beak of her hunger. Beak of her mothering. Mother-me, I say. I’m her body of surrender, waiting. I’m her body of hunger, waiting. Her body of danger, waiting under the five million star-fall night. Mother, I cry, you promised kinder dreams. You promised sleep. Be kind, you said, before you surrendered. Before
you climbed the star-fall...”
― Margo Berdeshevsky, Before the Drought

“Thou love to live beyond the illusion
She is mother fairy”
― H. S. Honey, Utopian Plane: Poems

“Crying heart verses in somber embrace, I cried into the night for so many.”
― Katri Maree, Coagulated Memories: A Coming of Age Collection of Poetry, Prose and Illustrations

“This silence violates my peace.
It's inevitable;
I'll speak.
Now, listen.”
― Maria Tzoutzopoulou, Adieus

“The night stands still and frozen
In a cold December frost,
Stars close in on her life;
Even in the infinite space, she’s lost”
― Eric Overby, Hourglass in Grace

“One life is a moment from the driving stream of future lives. People strive for power, greatness, money, the more is the better. People lose love, sincerity, inspiration and freedom. Betray the present, destroy your rivals, climb up the ladder of superiority here in this moment of your being. But the only is a love like a talisman will be save a person and give a possibility to reach to the far bank of the river of transparent love, which can only be entered by love.”
― Ekaterina Yakovina, Pechal Shelestyashchikh listyev

“... dokud sil je, povinnost si kladu
...
říc´, lež že není branou k Eldorádu,
nezačne úspěch podvodem.”
― Viktor Dyk, Dobré slovo příštím

“Chraň si mne. Haj si mne. V moci tvé všecko:
aby ztroskotala loď, anebo přistala.”
― Viktor Dyk, Dobré slovo příštím

“Dreams and reality can feel like separate worlds. Meditation melds them.”
― Orna Ross, Allowing Now: A Book of Mindfulness Poetry

“Love? Gentle on every given day.”
― Kari L. Greenaway

“Theaters? Backdrop for acting. Relationships? Backdrop for honesty.”
― Kari L. Greenaway

“I am tossed about and taken without
Warning, like an apple dropped into a
Vast river, flowing, crashing, out to Sea
Where birds, desperate for sustenance
Eat what they find”
― Cheryl Seely Savage, Give Me a Fragment: Glimpses into Motherhood, Depression, and Hope

“It is an easy thing to overlook true love.
Our eyes are searching for event and objects
Found in movies,
Novels,
And journals bursting with dreams.

We glance above the murky reality.
Our hearts do not notice the consistent presence
Of loyalty,
Friendship,
And dishes again scrubbed clean”
― Cheryl Seely Savage, Give Me a Fragment: Glimpses into Motherhood, Depression, and Hope

“The pale moonlight illuminates the twisting and winding shadows before me. Enveloped in blankets of silken fog I stare into the sky above. Wisps reflecting the night sky slowly drift by as do my thoughts. In this moment I am alone here and at peace; all that is before me is mine, for no other can see it as I do.”
― Aaron T. Powell

“Peace is a dream, and people are a scary nightmare
When they sell weapons before bread.”
― Salah Jahin

“Petunias

The mind filled, littered and polluted by black petunias
The horror of the naked decaying sun over our heads
Graves crumbling, hills erecting, mountains sinking
The stinking, smelling melodious melodies

Yarrows growing in my heart
Rage on my body
Anger on my soul
Darkness of all the hate
Manifesting

Xyris the abandoned beauty
Eyes dogged and damned!”
― Tapiwanaishe Pamacheche, Depth of colour

“Naked and raw
You create this stream
Into a world of blessing
You have yet to dream”
― Andrea L. Wehlann, No Matter How Dark the Stain

“​I don’t know how much longer I can run ​without you chasing me.”
― Jen Colclough, Not Ghosts, But Spirits IV: art from the women's & lgbtqiap+ communities

“Sometimes I think you keep me around
​just to make your shadow​​
l o n g e r.”
― Jen Colclough, Not Ghosts, But Spirits IV: art from the women's & lgbtqiap+ communities

“If I write toDay
toDay will write me back in History”
― Ritu Negi

“Poetry is a universal human art.”
― Dana Gioia, Poetry as Enchantment