Poetry Writing Quotes

You are created invisible spiritually, and invisibility is largely a matter of patience.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

To conquer fear, you must become fear - you must bask in the fear of the BOOK... and men fear most what they cannot see- The Power of the Book is spiritual.

Death does not wait for you to be ready.

Death is not considerate, or fair.

Today, death is your opponent.

It is not enough to be a man.

My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.

What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.

One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle

so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in.

How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly.

I have no doubt at all the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins --The other kind don't matter.

I sit in my treeI sing like the birdsMy beak is my penMy songs are my poems.

My Muse sits forlornShe wishes she had not been bornShe sits in the coldNo word she says is ever told.

I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Everything has its poetry. 94

Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

I want to read every book that’s writtenhear every song that was sungI want to gaze at every cloudand hold the zing of each fruit on my tongue.

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...

Lineation can make your break your poems.

Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.

I wonderif you ever read my poemsand wish they were writtenfor you.

Thoughts are ideas scattered in your head. When written forms a sentence. When rhymed, it forms a phrase and singing it blooms a beautiful poem.

Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ...

If I had to choose between all the books in the world and you, then I would choose to read your body for the rest of my life.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down.

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing.

I'm the G when you spell OG

We didn't do anything illegal, All we ever did was be black.. #BlackLivesMatter

God writes love and speaks poetry.