Death Quote by Inger Christensen

“This afternoon a flock of doves settled on my porch. Their silence took the shape of all I ever wanted to say. Today, the…

— Richard Jackson

“There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.”

— cate tiernan

“Each poem holds the voice of a moment. Held within, they are contained, damned to silence; released, they fly into the world to find…

— Noa Daniels

“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the flower that…

— Federico García Lorca

“Fears and hopes and dreams and sorrows all will dissolve like the fog they are, and what will be left is the light and…

— Elizabeth Kim

“Clouds and buttercups exist in poetry, but they are there only because storms and flowers populate the world too.”

— Daniel Tammet

“Slowly the golden memory of the dead sun fades from the hearts of the cold, sad clouds. Silent, like sorrowing children, the birds have…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“My darling, My day’s sweetest moments are at dawn, for I awake with dreams of you still in my head. As the light touches…

— Nancy B. Brewer

“Poet Wrestling with Words Some are clouds, mist, vapor Some are diaries written with tears Some appear like dew--a Friend in Time of need--some…

— Theresa Rough PhD

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“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

“Whether that lady's gentle mind, No longer with the form combined Which scattered love, as stars do light, Found sadness where it left delight,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley