“sifting through the madness for The Word, the line, the way, hoping for a check from somewhere, dreaming of a letter from a great editor, 'Chinaski, you don't know how long we've been waiting for you!' no chance at all.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I may be mad I may be blind I may be viciously unkind But I can still read what you're thinking.”— Annie Lennox, youtube.com
“Loving someone who cannot love you the same way in return is not weakness. It’s one of the most courageous things you’ll ever do. You are putting your armour at their feet and you are saying ‘I will not fight you in this. I have loved you and that means that I have already won.”— Azra T., 5000letters.tumblr.com
“It took the embalmer three days to prepare your body. He removed a half moon of flesh from the base of your hairline; sutured it as tight as your corset to reduce the postmortem swelling of your pretty little neck. Those infamous breasts deflated as a result of the autopsy. Under your favorite chart…”— Sierra De Mulder, redamancylit.wordpress.com
“Give me blood and rage and a heart for horror; teach me to be tough enough to face this world still standing. Make a Fury of me.”— Elisabeth Hewer, amazon.com
“Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Every idea in poetry is grounded in emotion. Every word is a palpation of the body. The multiplicity of interpretation surrounding a poem mirrors the stormy uncontrollability of emotion, where nature works her will.”— Camille Paglia, amazon.com
“Is it my job, as a woman, to encourage you to treat me like a person?”— Trista Mateer, thoughtcatalog.com
“my therapist said: overcoming trauma is all about forgiveness and a positive attitude and i said: how do you forgive someone who doesn’t even think they did anything wrong.”— anxietysuccs, anxietysuccs.tumblr.com
“A poet does not write to set down things he clearly knows, but to open the lips of his own oracle.”— John Vyvyan, amazon.com
“My first love was some insignificant boy when it should have been myself.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Tell me that you’re sorry. That you know we’re not stars. We’re just people. Tell me that you know there’s nothing poetic about plane tickets. Tell me that you want to buy them anyway.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“Atoms bind into crystals, silver deposits in the backyard. Nocturne of cloud and shadow, I dream backward into daybreak.”— L. A. Johnson, narrativemagazine.com
“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”— Aberjhani, amazon.com
“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”— Julian Barnes, amazon.com
“i am not a hotel room i am home i am not the whiskey you want i am the water you need don’t come here with expectations and try to make a vacation out of me.”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“Every morning the sun rises and you, like the plants covered in dew in your garden get a chance to start again.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“You don't have to prove to anyone just how tough you are. You are still here, and you are still alive despite all of life's storms and tornados and hurricanes. You have weathered them all like a grand old oak tree, and you are still here.You are still alive. And if that isn't tough, I don't know wha…”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“Your spine is stronger than granite. You have no reason to act like it doesn't exist.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“They only succeed in stealing your voice if you give them permission by silencing yourself.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com