Quotes

dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at the wedding)
never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for good likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)
in spite of everything
which breathes and moves, since Doom
(with white longest hands
neating each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds
-before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.
~E.E. Cummings

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"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. 

That's why people are so cynical about it. 

It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. 

And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more."

-Erica Jong

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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,

there is only the meaning we each give to our life,

an individual meaning, an individual plot,

like an individual novel, a book for each person.

-Anais Nin
1903-1977

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

-Khalil Gibran

1883-1931

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud 

was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

-Anais Nin

1903-1977

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

-Virginia Woolf
1882-1941

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“I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.”

-Anais Nin
1903-1977 

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Language is wine upon the lips.

-Virginia Woolf

1882-1941

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"English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary, thereby making any form of any word completely and utterly possible."
(Unknown)


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On Poetry

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
Winnie-the-Pooh, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne

“We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion... poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

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On Poetry

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Christopher Fry

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
― Robert Frost

“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel... as a reflection of us all.”
― John Lennon

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
― W.H. Auden

“...making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
― Anne Sexton

“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“They say that I am a poet. I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside. I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores. I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love.”
― Saul Williams

“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?”
― Virginia Woolf

“I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry.”
― Stephen Fry

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
― Christopher Morley

“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”
― Jean Cocteau

“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?”
― J.G. Ballard

“Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.”
― Bhagat Singh

“Librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous.”
― Ian Sansom

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.”
― J.M. Barrie

“To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.”
― Nicole Brossard