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Quotes About Poetry

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J.R.R. Tolkien

“All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost;

The old that is strong does not wither,

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,

A light from the shadows shall spring;

Renewed shall be blade that was broken,

The crownless again shall be king.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither 34397

Pablo Neruda

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”

― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry 25341

Pablo Neruda

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets


Robert Frost

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

― Robert Frost

tags: choice, poetry 8322

Robert Frost

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

― Robert Frost


Victor Hugo

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”

― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry 8050

E.E. Cummings

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere

I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)

I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”

― E.E. Cummings


Kahlil Gibran

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

tags: philosophy, poetry 6211

Plato

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

― Plato

tags: love, poetry, song 6018

Cassandra Clare

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading 5053

Chad Sugg

“If you're reading this...

Congratulations, you're alive.

If that's not something to smile about,

then I don't know what is.”

― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

tags: alive, congratulations, hope, humanity, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, life, poetry, smile, wisdom 4414

Walt Whitman

“Resist much, obey little.”

― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: poetry 4054

Leonardo da Vinci

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, poetry 4050

E.E. Cummings

“To be nobody but

yourself in a world

which is doing its best day and night to make you like

everybody else means to fight the hardest battle

which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry 3702

E.E. Cummings

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

― E.E. Cummings

tags: death, life, poetry 3364

G.K. Chesterton

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry 3126

Robert Frost

“Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I've tasted of desire,

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if it had to perish twice

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.”

― Robert Frost

tags: poetry 3071

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?”

― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry 2957

Pablo Neruda

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.

Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.

Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day

I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,

your hands the color of a savage harvest,

hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,

I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,

the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,

I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,

hunting for you, for your hot heart,

Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”

― Pablo Neruda


Kahlil Gibran

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

― Kahlil Gibran

tags: poetry, wisdom 2164

Walt Whitman

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

― Walt Whitman

tags: poetry 2120

Charles Darwin

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

tags: arts, life, music, poetry 2118

Anne Sexton

“As it has been said:

Love and a cough

cannot be concealed.

Even a small cough.

Even a small love.”

― Anne Sexton

tags: poetry 2022

J.R.R. Tolkien

“Still round the corner there may wait

A new road or a secret gate

And though I oft have passed them by

A day will come at last when I

Shall take the hidden paths that run

West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: books, poetry 1998

Robert Frost

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”

― Robert Frost

tags: humor, poetry, religion 1912

Anne Sexton

“Watch out for intellect,

because it knows so much it knows nothing

and leaves you hanging upside down,

mouthing knowledge as your heart

falls out of your mouth.”

― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

tags: intellect, love, poetry 1840

Ian Fleming

“You only live twice:

Once when you're born

And once when you look death in the face.”

― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice

tags: death, james-bond, philosophy, poetry 1752

Neil Gaiman

“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”

― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: inspirational, poetry 1717

T.S. Eliot

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

― T.S. Eliot

tags: poetry 1689

Robert Frost

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

― Robert Frost

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: poetry 650

Charlotte Brontë

“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre


William Faulkner

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem]

tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow 563

Rainer Maria Rilke

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: poetry 500

Janet Fitch

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”

― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

tags: hard, poetry 499

Pablo Neruda

“It was at that age

that poetry came in search of me.”

― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

tags: neruda, poetry 475

Mae West

“You are never too old to become younger!”

― Mae West

tags: maturity, paradox, poetry, story, story-telling, youthfulness 413

Novalis

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

― Novalis

tags: healing, poetry 397

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,

I have forgotten, and what arms have lain

Under my head till morning, but the rain

Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh

Upon the glass and listen for reply,

And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain

For unremembered lads that not again

Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,

Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,

Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:

I cannot say what loves have come and gone,

I only know that summer sang in me

A little while, that in me sings no more.”

― Edna St. Vincent Millay


E.E. Cummings

“may my heart always be open to little

birds who are the secrets of living

whatever they sing is better than to know

and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry

and fearless and thirsty and supple

and even if it's sunday may i be wrong

for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully

and love yourself so more than truly

there's never been quite such a fool who could fail

pulling all the sky over him with one smile”

― E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

tags: poetry, youth 370

Vincent van Gogh

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

― Vincent van Gogh

tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide 348

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;

Thy fate is the common fate of all,

Into each life some rain must fall”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: heart, life, poetry, sorrow 333

Billy Collins

“Marginalia

Sometimes the notes are ferocious,

skirmishes against the author

raging along the borders of every page

in tiny black script.

If I could just get my hands on you,

Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O'Brien,

they seem to say,

I would bolt the door and beat some logic into your head.

Other comments are more offhand, dismissive -

Nonsense." "Please!" "HA!!" -

that kind of thing.

I remember once looking up from my reading,

my thumb as a bookmark,

trying to imagine what the person must look like

who wrote "Don't be a ninny"

alongside a paragraph in The Life of Emily Dickinson.

Students are more modest

needing to leave only their splayed footprints

along the shore of the page.

One scrawls "Metaphor" next to a stanza of Eliot's.

Another notes the presence of "Irony"

fifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal.

Or they are fans who cheer from the empty bleachers,

Hands cupped around their mouths.

Absolutely," they shout

to Duns Scotus and James Baldwin.

Yes." "Bull's-eye." "My man!"

Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points

rain down along the sidelines.

And if you have managed to graduate from college

without ever having written "Man vs. Nature"

in a margin, perhaps now

is the time to take one step forward.

We have all seized the white perimeter as our own

and reached for a pen if only to show

we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages;

we pressed a thought into the wayside,

planted an impression along the verge.

Even Irish monks in their cold scriptoria

jotted along the borders of the Gospels

brief asides about the pains of copying,

a bird singing near their window,

or the sunlight that illuminated their page-

anonymous men catching a ride into the future

on a vessel more lasting than themselves.

And you have not read Joshua Reynolds,

they say, until you have read him

enwreathed with Blake's furious scribbling.

Yet the one I think of most often,

the one that dangles from me like a locket,

was written in the copy of Catcher in the Rye

I borrowed from the local library

one slow, hot summer.

I was just beginning high school then,

reading books on a davenport in my parents' living room,

and I cannot tell you

how vastly my loneliness was deepened,

how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed,

when I found on one page

A few greasy looking smears

and next to them, written in soft pencil-

by a beautiful girl, I could tell,

whom I would never meet-

Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love.”

― Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning

tags: marginalia, poetry, reading 329

Maya Angelou

“We, unaccustomed to courage

exiles from delight

live coiled in shells of loneliness

until love leaves its high holy temple

and comes into our sight

to liberate us into life.

Love arrives

and in its train come ecstasies

old memories of pleasure

ancient histories of pain.

Yet if we are bold,

love strikes away the chains of fear

from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity

In the flush of love's light

we dare be brave

And suddenly we see

that love costs all we are

and will ever be.

Yet it is only love

which sets us free.”

― Maya Angelou

tags: courage, fear, freedom, life, lonliness, love, pain, poetry 325

W.H. Auden

“He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”

― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems

tags: death, love, poetry 322

W.H. Auden

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

― W.H. Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II. 1939-1948

tags: language, poetry, words 321

Jarod Kintz

“Here's a haiku/palindrome I wrote called, "Obsession."

Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,

Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob,

Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob”

― Jarod Kintz, A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped Carrot

tags: bob, funny, haiku, obsession, palindrome, poetry, writing 306

William Blake

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

― William Blake, Jerusalem

tags: poetry 293

Nikki Giovanni

“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. ”

― Nikki Giovanni

tags: love, poetry, rain, snow 287

W.H. Auden

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well

That, for all they care, I can go to hell,

But on earth indifference is the least

We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn

With a passion for us we could not return?

If equal affection cannot be,

Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am

Of stars that do not give a damn,

I cannot, now I see them, say

I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,

I should learn to look at an empty sky

And feel its total dark sublime,

Though this might take me a little time.”

― W.H. Auden

tags: astrology, love, poetry, skies, sky, stars, the-more-loving-one 286

W.H. Auden

“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”

― W.H. Auden

tags: human-nature, poetry 281

Jess C. Scott

“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”

― Jess C. Scott, EyeLeash: A Blog Novel

tags: body, boy, boyfriend, boys, cool, culture, desire, emotion, friendship, funny, honesty, humor, humour, imagination, individuality, life, love, music, novel, passion, poem, poems, poet, poetry, poetry-life, poets, reality, relationships, romance, self, sex, technology, truth, wisdom, young, youth 276

Dante Alighieri

“Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende

prese costui de la bella persona

che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.

Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,

Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,

Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..."

"Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,

Seized him with my beautiful form

That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.

Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,

took me so strongly with delight in him

That, as you see, it still abandons me not...”

― Dante Alighieri, Inferno: A New Verse Translation

tags: italian, italy, love, medieval-literature, poetry 275

“I give you this to take with you:

Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can

begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.”

― Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters

tags: change, leaving, moving, poetry, rebirth, time 274

Nick Hornby

“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

tags: heroin, humanity, love, poetry 269

George Eliot

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: music, poetry 267

W.B. Yeats

“What can be explained is not poetry.”

― W.B. Yeats

tags: poetry, yeats 263

E.E. Cummings

“twice I have lived forever in a smile”

― E.E. Cummings

tags: cummings, love, poetry, smiling 254

Langston Hughes

“Looks like what drives me crazy

Don't have no effect on you--

But I'm gonna keep on at it

Till it drives you crazy, too.”

― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

tags: craziness, crazy, evil, poetry 240

Maya Angelou

“It’s the fire in my eyes,

And the flash of my teeth,

The swing in my waist,

And the joy in my feet.

I’m a woman

Phenomenally.”

― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

tags: confidence, poetry, womanhood 234

“and love is a word used

too much and

much

too soon.”

― Charles Bukowski, The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

tags: bukowski, classic, classics, i-love-you, love, patience, poem, poetry 16

Ovid

“As wave is driven by wave

And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,

So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,

Always, for ever and new. What was before

Is left behind; what never was is now;

And every passing moment is renewed.”

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

tags: change, poetry, renewal, time, transience 6

Robert Paul Weston

“Here is a story that’s stranger than strange.

Before we begin you may want to arrange:

a blanket, a cushion, a comfortable seat,

and maybe some cocoa and something to eat.

I’ll warn you, of course, before we commence,

my story is eerie and full of suspense,

brimming with danger and narrow escapes,

and creatures of many remarkable shapes.

Dragons and ogres and gorgons and more,

and creatures you’ve not even heard of before.

And faraway places? There’s plenty of those!

(And menacing villains to tingle your toes.)

So ready your mettle and steady your heart.

It’s time for my story’s mysterious start...”

― Robert Paul Weston, Zorgamazoo

tags: beginnings, cocoa, creatures, dragons, mystery, ogres, poetry, suspense, villains 4

Alan Watts

“Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.”

― Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

tags: arts-and-humanities, being-true-to-yourself, human-nature, intelligence, poetry, sensitivity, wonder 3

Gail Carriger

“Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied”

― Gail Carriger, Timeless

tags: damage, harm, misapply, misuse, poetry 2

Pat Conroy

“She pronounced each word carefully, as though she was tasting fruit. The words of her poems were a most private and fragrant orchard.”

― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

tags: poetry 2

Denise Duhamel

“I just didn’t get it—

even with the teacher holding an orange (the earth) in one hand

and a lemon (the moon) in the other,

her favorite student (the sun) standing behind her with a flashlight.

I just couldn’t grasp it—

this whole citrus universe, these bumpy planets revolving so slowly

no one could even see themselves moving.

I used to think if I could only concentrate hard enough

I could be the one person to feel what no one else could,

sense a small tug from the ground, a sky shift, the earth changing gears.

Even though I was only one mini-speck on a speck,

even though I was merely a pinprick in one goosebump on the orange,

I was sure then I was the most specially perceptive, perceptively sensitive.

I was sure then my mother was the only mother to snap,

“The world doesn’t revolve around you!”

The earth was fragile and mostly water,

just the way the orange was mostly water if you peeled it,

just the way I was mostly water if you peeled me.

Looking back on that third grade science demonstration,

I can understand why some people gave up on fame or religion or cures—

especially people who have an understanding

of the excruciating crawl of the world,

who have a well-developed sense of spatial reasoning

and the tininess that it is to be one of us.

But not me—even now I wouldn’t mind being god, the force

who spins the planets the way I spin a globe, a basketball, a yoyo.

I wouldn’t mind being that teacher who chooses the fruit,

or that favorite kid who gives the moon its glow.”

― Denise Duhamel

tags: arrogance, ego, poetry 1

“She thought men were saviors...

...And she looked for more in them than what they were...

Only to rescue herself from those she wished would rescue her...

And isn't that the most tragic lie...

The lie where we tell what we wished were true and believe it...?

She had an artificial memory, a prosthesis to a past that never was...

She was like a party that no one ever went to...

Like a cure...without a disease...

And isn't that the greatest fear of all...to be ready with the answers

to questions that no one asks anymore?”

― Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant To Say To You When We Were Old

tags: poetry, self-deception, tragedy 1

Kristina Haynes

“You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.”

― Kristina Haynes, It Looked a Lot Like Love

tags: emotion, feelings, insecure, poetry 1

Edgar A. Guest

“And yet the cares are many and the hours of toil are few;

There is not time enough on earth for all I'd like to do;

But, having lived and having toiled, I'd like the world to find

Some little touch of beauty that my soul had left behind.”

― Edgar A. Guest

tags: beauty, death, life, poetry 1

“I am the author of my life story,

I wrote it in poetry”

― Mr.Yoso

tags: author, life, poem, poetry, self-expression, writing 0

Kathleen Norris

“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized its potential to touch others in their innermost being, what [Kathleen] Fraser has termed their "yearning side," it could be a profoundly communal act. Poetry, when it succeeded, did so in ways that were not quantifiable, and did not look much like worldly success, but that might be summed up as the joy on the face of a girl in a dingy classroom who finds a kindred spirit in a poem by Garcia Lorca.”

― Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington

tags: poetry 0

Washington Irving

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.”

― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

tags: literature, poetry 0

John Keats

“That men, who might have tower'd in the van

Of all the congregated world, to fan

And winnow from the coming step of time

All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime

Left by men-slugs and human serpentry,

Have been content to let occasion die,

Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.”

― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance

tags: greatness, innovation, love, poetry 0

Rudyard Kipling

“Like Princes crowned they bore them--

Like Demi-Gods they wrought,

When the New World lay before them

In headlong fact and thought.

Fate and their foemen proved them

Above all meed of praise,

And Gloriana loved them,

And Shakespeare wrote them plays!

. . . . . . .

Now Valour, Youth, and Life's delight break forth

In flames of wondrous deed, and thought sublime---

Lightly to mould new worlds or lightly loose

Words that shall shake and shape all after-time!

Giants with giants, wits with wits engage,

And England-England-England takes the breath

Of morning, body and soul, till the great Age

Fulfills in one great chord:--Elizabeth!”

― Rudyard Kipling, Complete Verse

tags: elizabeth-ii, england, poetry, royalty 0

“Se te empiezan a acumular los tiempos perdidos y no te quedan manos para tapar los agujeros.”

― Rosa Yánez Gómez, Esto no es un libro de poesía

tags: poesía, poetry 0

“No hay soledad peor que tu silencio.”

― Rosa Yánez Gómez, Esto no es un libro de poesía

tags: poesía, poetry 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.”

― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: awkward, backward, bard, books, despicable, dull, fear, fright, influence, laziness, library, low, low-spirits, michael-bassey-johnson, phobia, poem, poetry, turning-back, write, writers, writing 0

Kathleen Norris

“...the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words and hold out for the right ones, and above all, be vigilant about staying on the path of revision, no matter how uncomfortable or even painful the journey might become.”

― Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington

tags: creativity, poetry, writing 0

“Read my poems quite slowly

Or should I say listen closely”

― Mr.Yoso

tags: poem, poetry 0

“Pretty girls are envy in your beauty and one of a kind personality- Unique”

― Mr.Yoso

tags: admiration, enlightenment, lyrics, poem, poetry, song 0

Saila Susiluoto

“14.

Hän poimii auringonpaloa puutarhoista ja maakellarista, joka on tämä

taivas reikineen, valo sataa sisään aukoista. Hän poimii valoa

kuppikaupalla, sormenpäät ovat mustuneet. Hän heittää siemeniä

maininkeihin, jotta ne kasvavat.

Hopea vuotaa kaikkialta läpi, niin kuin maansydän olisi

aaltojen välkettä.”

― Saila Susiluoto, Auringonkierto

tags: finnish, poetry 0

Saila Susiluoto

“21.

Muurahaisten sokerijalat, täyttymystahmeat. Niiden keinuvat mustat

siivet, valosta varjoon soljuvat varret. Auringon myöhäiset sormet

höyhenillä, niin tuuliset ja viipyilevät. Niin kuin se, mikä on kahden välillä

löytää paikkansa, lepäämättä. Tai niin kuin leikki alkaa surusta, leikillä on

kehä, sen keskellä aina joku, unohtunut valo hiuksillaan, muistuttaa

merestä johon aurinko uppoaa niin tuulisesti, niin tuulisesti ja viipyilevästi

kuin iholla rakastetun sormet. Tapaaminen joka on aina viimeinen, leikin

keskellä, ulkopuolella leikin, ei surun.”

― Saila Susiluoto, Auringonkierto

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Saila Susiluoto

“Lehtihevonen laukkaa, se on vehmas ja valloillaan. Sen kyljillä kiiltää

koivuntuoksu, kesäisen illan toiveikas valo. Ettei aurinkomme koskaan

laskisi. Ettei rakkaus laskisi mittaa, tiimalasi tyhjyyden täyttyvää määrää.

Hevonen laukkaa, kello kumahtelee, sydän laskee yötä kammioidensa läpi.

Hevonen laukkaa, niin kuin aika ohimoilla ruohonsilkkisin sormin, se

laukkaa. Lehtevä aurinko lautasillaan, kultasilmäinen pöllö selässään

se laukkaa hämärän metsän halki. Illan viimeinen valo harjallaan, sen

silmissä humisee kuusien tumma linnoitus.”

― Saila Susiluoto

tags: finnish, hevosen-huone, poetry 0

Saila Susiluoto

“Lattian peittää sinikimalteinen vesi. Simpukat kohisevat katonrajassa,

niiden huuruiset ornamentit valuttavat hiekalle helmiäistä. Tytöt sanovat:

kannamme murhetta kuin kruunua, pienillä tytöillä on painavat kruunut.

Menemme niin alastomiksi että katoamme, olemme täynnä linnoitusten

aukkojen valoa, valoon räpiköiviä lintuja, täynnä kirkasta vettä. He

sanovat: taivas on pärskivää sinistä verta, veneiden purjeet perhoskeveitä.

Se kouraisee vatsasta, on syvä nälkä, joka ei koskaan lakkaa. He sanovat:

vesi kimaltaa huoneessa hopeisena. Väri seisoo haaleudessamme kuin vesi.”

― Saila Susiluoto, Huoneiden kirja

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Saila Susiluoto

“Rahiseva transistori, Saarenmaan valssi soi, luontoilta, säätiedotus

kun alkaa näyttää matalalta. Ilmapuntarit heilahtavat, tytön vatsassa

rummuttaa ilo ja jännitys, tytöllä on trapetsimieli. Äidin päätä

särkee, naisilla on sääpää. Isä tekee kalanpäästä keittoa, hauella on

elävät harmaat silmät, ne kasvattavat älyä, tyttö jää tyhmäksi. Kala

maistuu mudalta, muta on iilimatojen onnela, hauki vaanii vedessä

ahnain hampain, kyyt pusikoissa, iilit veden värjyvissä poukamissa,

muta tytön sydämessä, pikkuiset valkeat sydämet ovat reikiä

uikkareissa, tyttö ei mene uimaan, tyttö menee aurinkopaahteiselle

tielle makaamaan kädet auki, nauraa ilosta kun auto suhahtaa

sentillä ohi, punaisen kuplan ikkunasta rahisee Georg Ots.”

― Saila Susiluoto, Siivekkäät ja hännäkkäät

tags: finnish, poetry, tyttösatu 0

“Seven peso pen,

Eleven peso paper men”

― Mr.Yoso

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“I play a piano of words—its icy tinkle echoes through your halls”

― John Geddes

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“There is no shortage of ugliness in the world. If man closed his eyes to it there would be even more”

― Farough Farrokhzad

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“There is no shortage of ugliness in the world. If man closed his eyes to it there would be even more.”

― Farough Farrokhzad

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