“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”— Rumi, amazon.com
“I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, amazon.com
“Because it is beyond all bearing – The pain of loving soul’s silence.”— Anna Akhmatova, poetryloverspage.com
“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.”— Paul Dirac, en.wikiquote.org
“I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The astonishing Light Of your own Being!”— Hafiz, amazon.com
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, amazon.com
“In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence.”— Bei Dao, goodreads.com
“You write a poem to discover what you’re thinking, feeling, where the truth is. You don’t begin by saying, now this is the truth.”— Maxine Kumin, amazon.com
“Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“I feel the carousel starting slowly And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books, Photographs of friends, the window and the trees, Merging into one neutral band that surrounds Me on all sides, everywhere I look. And I cannot explain the action of leveling, Why it should all boil down to one Uni…”— John Ashbery, nytimes.com