Poetry Writing Quotes

Listen.I will lose myselfif it means I can find you.

The tragedy of love is in its ending, the blessing—everything else. No love ever deserves to end.

If you can't be the poet, be the poem.

You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.

I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights.

i am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit’s another wayfor meto be in tears.

Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.

Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages.

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won't meet. Breaking the broom isn't a must. Don't mistake unmoved dreams for dust

That tingle in the brain is called a word.It bats itself against its fleshy bounds.

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

Discovery's friend is creativity

Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?

Writing poetry is a state of free float

I write these words to touch you, My love, In places my hands can only dream of.

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

Being a blesséd writer is a cursed attribute, when you wish to no longer be encompassed by someone and yet you are surrounded by loose leaf papers filled with the sound of his voice.

Trust the vibes you get, energy doesn’t lie.

Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.

When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters, I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.

As long as music survives, poetry will never die.

In poetry, the best way to say cuss words is to hide it behind metaphors.

I say, flawless poems do not exist.

Blank pages are cruelPure torture in white or beigeBut how else to start

I only ever wanted to feel more human.

At the end of all things, why do lovers break up? Because love is magic. You have to believe, for it to exist.

She reminded me that I could write stories, /could be struck by lightning & live.

We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, so what happens when the person's eyes are unavailable to look into? You read their words.

I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.

She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.

Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.

How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …

The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.

You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.

Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.

Poetry is the beauty of life.

It's not pain. It's raw material.

Some men are born to be good some born to be badAs for me I only came with just a pen ‘n’ a pad.

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.

To come up with one great sentence, one needs to serve a life sentence.