All Quotes By Tag: Words

“The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.”

“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,Student of our sweet English tongue,Read out my words at night, alone:I was a poet, I was young.Since I can never see your face,And never shake you by the hand,I send my soul through time and spaceTo greet you. You will understand.”

“Slogans are mere wordsuck…”

“…if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?”

“A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.”

“Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes”

“So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words”

“The value of ones heart is in the reminders of what fills it,words may sustain for a while but actions will always be the hope”

“If this turns to friendship, it only meansThat one of us will suffer.That when we meet after the worst of endings,There will only be this skein of words between us—Most of them for boredom, fewer for loneliness—Rising out of our mutual space of breath, leavingBehind a bluer sky each moment of departure.And one of us will cling on to its blue,Hung on partings like a muted cloud, whileThe other rides on a wing of word away from here.”

“He knew his words could not convey the impossible love he felt for her, so he held her stare and hoped (prayed!) she would understand the immensity of it all.”

“Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow movement, it thaws all the icicles, which keep mounting within us, in the hope of receiving the warmth of words.”

“Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.”

“It takes but a handful of words to ambush my soul with hope. Yet, the vexing question in it all is why do I so often ambush the words?”

“I clung to each word that fell from his lips like a spider to a web.”

“The Word of God is never mere words.”