322 quotes found
“You've slipped away like a fistful of sand. You've vanished so quickly like a wind. Do you know how I long to hold you love of my life.”
“When I feel lonely you are here beside me with your loving and caring touch.”
“In times of need I call unto you Abba Father and you answer.”
“Everything I do you are here to give me an assurance that I will succeed. What an awesome Father you are.”
“My heart is crushed, my knees are weakened. My tears drench my pillow, my tears flood my bed every night. Do you know how much I miss you father of my children.”
“Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms. All flawless hexagons may melt and break; While you must feel the summer's rage of fire, Beyond this frigid se...”
“And now it is said of meThat my love is nothing because I have borne no children, Or because I have fathered none;That I twisted the twig in my handsAnd cut the blossom free too soon from the seed;...”
“You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, Ill rise.”
“I love your round head,the brilliant green,the watching blue,these letters,this world, you.I am very, very hungry.”
“A poet is somebody who has written a poem.”
“A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.”
“...when the petals fallSay it is beautiful and good, say it is well”
“I can tell you that solitudeIs not all exaltation, inner spaceWhere the soul breaths and work can be done.Solitude exposes the nerve,Raises up ghosts.The past, never at rest, flows through it.”
“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Ga...”
“It wouldn't have to be sunny It wouldn't have to be anything else then just that It would really simplify my walk home at night, where every thought I think is some contrived line I repeat over and...”
“We manufacture wonder where we can.”
“And youre a tall drink of water because were so fucking thirsty”
“The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.”
“On the Gallows OnceKofi AwoonorI crossed quite a fewof your rivers, my gods,into this plain where thirst reignsI heard the cry of mournersthe long cooing of the African wren at duskthe laughter of ...”
“She reminded me that I could write stories,/could be struck by lightning & live.”
