Poetry proverbs

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◆ Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding

- Saul Williams99

◆ Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

- Jack Kerouac99

◆ Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)

- William Shakespeare99

◆ Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

- Robert Frost99

◆ Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

- Plutarch99

◆ I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

- Socrates99

◆ Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

- John Keats99

◆ What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

- Soren Kierkegaard99

◆ If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

- Jim Morrison99

◆ Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

- Carl Sandburg99

◆ A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley99

◆ Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

- Audre Lorde99

◆ If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

- Rainer Maria Rilke99