982 Quotes About Poet

The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you,it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know,your fears, your 4 am thoughts, your achievements,are things I no longer have an equivalent to.Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now.-Tanzy Sayadi and Jarod Kintz

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.

To be able to hand somebody a poem like you’d hand them a hammer or 20 bucks and say, 'I hope this helps' ...is not only powerful but our responsibility as poets.

I see that you're imperfect, oh that's perfect!

There is no poetry without want. Desperate want.

I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself with trivialities — as if your love could be any more complete. But I write, in the first place,because of you, my muse. I write for your green eyes to glance at my humble words and for the pleasure of hearing you utter them.

I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.