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Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Dejan Stojanovic
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.
Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.
In the essence of truth lies deceit.
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E.M. Forster
I pen you words from my heartneither paper nor pen would doas I lay them out in flowery fontswhat more could you ask foras I am writing in your heartthe love that I want to endureI am no Keats nor am I anyone but mea poetess longing for your touchget lost with me in my wordsas I serenade you with a forever quill.
Chimnese Davids
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
What we call life is only talk of nature.
Do not look too far for you will see nothing.
The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.
How does one say something new and not retell?
He thought others were small; that was his greatness.
Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.
Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
Love is almost never simple.
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
Henry David Thoreau
My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Michelle Geaney
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
George Eliot
