“you might as well be the sky that twinkle in your eye please don't stop looking at me like that you bring me right back to life”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, amazon.com
“I was always the lyrical tune in your ear turned up too loud you always had a way of turning me down It's time my beat drowns you out”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, amazon.com
“In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with You there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with You there is patience; I do not understand Your ways, But You know the way for…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“find the pocket of your heartbeat where you keep forgiveness. we will try again tomorrow”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com
“I want to unhook my shadow from the wall and dress it in street clothes.”— Caitlyn Siehl, instagram.com
“still in this desert i am pleading for rain, still i'm hoping there is something to love”— Natalia Vela, instagram.com
“A rather serious—maybe too serious—university student from another country came to Hafiz to personally ask for his permission to translate some of Hafiz's poems into a little book. And he said to Hafiz, ‘What is the essential quality in your poems that I need to incorporate in my translations to mak…”— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.com
“i'm still mourning every word unspoken since the last time you told me you loved me.”— Natalia Vela, instagram.com
“What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories—prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. Th…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.”— Alexander Pope, poetryfoundation.org
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends, I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken—I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so…”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“my very first memory involves watching her plant roses in a garden and i’ve written too many poems to call this anything other than symbolic.”— Caitlin Conlon, cgcpoems.tumblr.com
“The passion doth fly. Love must be enduring; The flowers fade by, Fruit must be maturing.”— Friedrich Schiller, schillerinstitute.org
“Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning, Daughter of Elysium, Fire drunken we are ent’ring Heavenly, thy holy home! Thy enchantments bind together, What did custom stern divide, Every man becomes a brother, Where thy gentle wings abide.”— Friedrich Schiller, schillerinstitute.org
“Poetry has the capacity, in its own ways and by its own means, to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“Beside the stove we ate an orange. And there were purple flowers on the table. And we still had hours.”— Kim Addonizio, soracities.tumblr.com
“Love is more gentle and understanding & sometimes joking about all the things that used to hurt.”— Ari Eastman, instagram.com
“give me cheap beer and country back roads– the hum of the engine as we climb through the roof towards a sky with no sun.”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com