684 Quotes About Poets

every choice i have ever made after you existedhas been dependent on exactlyhow close i can have you next to meand how long i can get you to stay.

you came in slowly like the fog and consumed me.

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

she wanted because art

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.

I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work and it's money and I've written more lists than songs lately. I stay up all night to do all these things I need to do, be all these things I want to be, playing with shadows in the darkness that shouldn't be able to exist. Empty bottles and cigarettes while watching the sunrise, why do I complain? I have it all, everything I ever asked for.