Fiction Quote by Sherry D. Ficklin

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am…

— Oscar Wilde

“...fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love…

— Kate Fox

“I’m not sure if I can write a love poem while it’s still just a prospect pirouetting on the horizon, but when I do…

— Simone Stolzoff

“If I took every romantic poem, every book, every song, and every movie I've ever read, heard or seen and extracted the breathtaking moments,…

— Colleen Hoover

“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must be loved in…

— A.S. Byatt

“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We break easily.…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“There has never been a poet able to heal with words, nor accurately express with phrases, the pain of missing a lost loved one.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Poetry has a long, long memory. After our love is long gone, we will still be reading your poems. You will not be the…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.”

— Kij Johnson

“Give me a literary love that doesn't need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in…

— Julie Harvey Delcourt