Loneliness Quote by Chelsey Minnis

“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...”

— John Geddes

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man

“And so the little poet poetized away his never-ending poem and even the silliest woman could poetize with him. But they couldn't be together.…

— Nescio

“I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to the cooing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“A month alone behind closed doors forgotten books, remembered, clear again. Poems come, like water to the pool Welling, up and out, from perfect…

— Yuan Mei

“A BRIEF INTERLUDE It’s been three years since I’ve spent the night with someone who liked me enough to get breakfast in the morning.…

— Trista Mateer

“Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“Some poems take us places where no words reach, no thought, they take you up to the core itself, life stops for one moment…

— Jón Kalman Stefánsson

“a poem is just a little machine for remembering itself”

— Kyle Simonsen

“The poem finds the word that finds the feeling.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh, and you cannot help but want me. You think it's cruel how…

— Warsan Shire

“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of yourself, and…

— Andrea Ashworth