“And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“I made myself a snowball As perfect as could be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for its head. Then last night it ran away, But first–it wet the bed.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com
“Forgive everyone for your own sins And be sure to tell them You love them which you do.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.”— Sharon Olds, amazon.com
“I think there’s a big difference between being a bad person and being bad at being a person.”— Megan Falley, amazon.com
“Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And though calamities have crossed thee, and misery been heaped on thy head, Yet ills that never happened, have chiefly made thee wretched.”— Martin Farquhar Tupper, amazon.com
“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
“Because it is beyond all bearing – The pain of loving soul’s silence.”— Anna Akhmatova, poetryloverspage.com
“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