All Quotes By Tag: Poetry

“Shiny, perfect thingsExpensive cars, fancy diamond rings Hardly impress meRather mundane, shallow, uninspiring Give me rough around the edges any day Dreadlocks and tousled hair are fine by me Body piercingsQuirky thingsVintage art, old records and books appeal to me Because they have charm, more personality”

“Never underestimate your worth your beauty or your strength. You are everything you can imagine and so much more.”

“I am the girl that goes backwards, takes wrong turns, stumbles in life’s chasms. I am also the girl that finds gold where others feared to stray. Perhaps because I follow my heart, instead of sage advice thrown my way.”

“Be patient my little wild one, wondrous things take time. A pearl is hidden before it’s refined. A diamond’s luster is dull before revealing brilliant magnificent breathtaking shine.”

“Work on yourself— Feed your mind Nourish your soul Find your passion; Water it, nurture itLet it take root and blossom Let yourself be consumedLet yourself drown in what you love”

“You’ve got to plant flowers in the center of your soul if you want to bloom.”

“Where you see scars I see artWhere you see flawsI see incredible beauty Where you see failuresI see knowledge and growth Everything is perception You see with your eyesI see with my soul It’s how you rock And how I roll.”

“No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.”

“He felt like sin but tasted like love so, what’s a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious rapturous love.”

“Sometimes you must let people go because their pieces no longer fit. This departure is for the betterment of your energy, your space and your precious life.”

“There are no brakes in loving you. No life preservers. It is full throttle or nothing at all. I cannot stop, I won’t stop. I will drown in love and return dripping with madness and poetry. It is an art, a gift, this kind of lunacy.”

“Don’t be so eager to arrive at your destination. Take the long way. Enjoy the ride, the view. Get a little lost, make new friends and a few mistakes along the way.”

“One of poetry’s great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music and image — things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why — is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.”Staying Human: Poetry in the Age of Technology”

“I believe by Elizabeth AlexanderPoetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown said“Every ‘I’ is a dramatic ‘I’”)digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the proverbial pocketbook.Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, Godin the details, the only wayto get from here to there.Poetry (and now my voice is rising)is not all love, love, love,and I’m sorry the dog died.Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)is the human voice,and are we not of interest to each other?”

“We all hit rock bottom; sometimes, you bounce up fast, sometimes you crawl until you can straighten up and sometimes you have to lay there for a long time until you learn how to rise again.”