the fire for light, a rancorous moon for bread,
the jasmine smearing around its bruised secrets:
then from a terrifying love, soft white hands
poured peace into my eyes and sun into my senses.
~pablo neruda "love sonnet XXIII"
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ~Robert Frost
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness. ~Khalil Gibran
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. ~C.D. Wright
i found god in myself
and i loved her
i loved her fiercely
~ Ntozake Shange
I am God, la de dah. ~Anne Sexton
It never spoke, and yet it had a voice--a voice that seemed to have the whole earth in it. ~Thomas Wolfe
Resist much. Obey little. ~Walt Whitman
Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long. ~Pablo Neruda
I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. ~Neruda
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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