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“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”
“I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.”
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of em...”
“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.”
“We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think thes...”
“Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.”
“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”
“You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.”
“I am as disillusioned with the number of likes for one's posts on social networking sites as I am with the number of followers in one's social network. A great number of people liking your work doe...”
“Poetry is and should not be explained Its not a theory not a formula or a set patternIts a labyrinth of reflection with no source of image”
“There is something so innocent about blank pagesThat I can't lie to them about my existence”
“Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.”
“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the ...”
“We all knew she needed help.But none of us knew how.And none of us could swallow our pride and just ask her what she needed.I dont know why.Maybe we were too ashamed we didnt know how to approach o...”
“It always felt as though there were a shaken beehive living in my chest. I could never rest.”
“As a writer, a poet, youre not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.”
“I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.”
“They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?”
“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. Its only that.”
“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”
