Top 80 Darkness Poetry Quotes
#1. In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
Abbas Kiarostami
#2. Sunset was only thirty minutes gone when some pissant vampire waylaid Deacon on his way to Theriault's. One of those younger shits who wrote poetry to Mother Darkness and thought becoming a vampire would make him sparkle.
Meljean Brook
#3. I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.
Sherman Kennon
#4. Starlight beats when heart twinkles
Youthful sky beyond cloudy wrinkles
Muse of glory to flame the night
Verse inscribed as written light
Munia Khan
#5. Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.
The wind moves like a wounded animal.
The ground must be full of teeth by now.
Cecilia Llompart
#6. You want to hear a riddle, you say? I know a very good one. It begins, why is a raven like a writing desk?'
She lifted her chin. 'Have you gone mad, Hatta? I can't seem to tell.'
'They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.
Marissa Meyer
#7. I am lost in my world,
invisible - unknown.
Moon please lend me
your light that someone
will me see me.
Susie Clevenger
#8. Only darkened trails of rain could paint your face upon a pane ...
John Geddes
#9. I paint the darkness and the silence,
You see them as stars and poetry.
Jenim Dibie
#10. No man has the courage to approach her or initiate questions she herself rise, for all men fear a fascist and she can very well be a fascist's wife.
Mie Hansson
#11. I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
Seamus Heaney
#12. Someone, somewhere, needs to hear what you have to say.
We all share this wondrous planet, called earth.
And inevitably, we all must journey through the darkness.
Many people don't survive, but you can help!
Delano Johnson
#13. Some, they didn't make it.
The temptation just too strong.
How can darkness cloud the mind
To what I know as wrong?
Kimberly Nalen
#16. Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue
Sylvia Plath
#17. In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all.
Denise Levertov
#18. At a night like this,
where it's just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete.
Kamand Kojouri
#19. To read a poem
Is to see light where there is darkness
Is to hear silence where there is noise
Is to dance where there is no music
Is to sing where the only instrument is words
And the stirring, impassioned pauses
A.A. Patawaran
#21. I'd rather be not the light in your life
The bright day might make me obscure
I'd rather be the cold darkness
For it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure
Sanhita Baruah
#22. Moon is a superstar to a neon light
Both are in doubt of their lifeless plight
One envies the sun, the other one's scared
But to face the dark they're always prepared
Munia Khan
#23. for we all have
our own
twilights
and mists
and abysses
to return to.
Sanober Khan
#24. Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting sound
where sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound
Munia Khan
#25. I shall think of you
Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing.
You are a burning lamp to me, a flame
The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you High in my hand against whatever darkness.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#26. I was running on the earth,
Slashing primeval winds.
I was running in the world,
Riddled with darkness.
Keishi Ando
#27. And you never realize
How much the darkness
Has robbed of the light
Until the very faces you love
Become ghosts
Memories.
Christopher Lilley
#28. Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
Theodore Roethke
#29. Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos.
Robert M. Drake
#30. As children we learned our shadow
is a darkness we never totally shake
until we lie down, pull the shades,
draw the curtains, shut out the world,
and turn our own light out.
B.J. Ward
#31. Dark is the world's night without you my love,
Pablo Neruda
#32. In my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain ...
John Geddes
#34. Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born.
Ikkyu
#35. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness.
We trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone.
Our music is our alchemy.
Saul Williams
#36. I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim,
My darkness is composed of him.
Nenia Campbell
#37. Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.
Steven Erikson
#38. I can look beyond the clouds
to feel your love
the sun will rise again
to end the darkness
April Nichole
#39. I see a bright
portion
under the overhead light
that shades into
darkness
and then into darker
darkness
and I can't see beyond that.
Charles Bukowski
#40. My heart can feel the softness of a star
Only when the moon stays afar
I lay my mind on the pillow of sky
Where sleep dares not ever to pry
Munia Khan
#41. Mist lies over the river like the icy breath of winter angels. Darkness gathers round ... and it is beautiful.
Thank you for this life, this death, whatever it is you are
that makes us finally see.
Jay Woodman
#42. I see the beauty in you, and the darkness. Both are brilliant.
Christina Strigas
#44. The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become.
Wallace Stevens
#45. But that's life. We wander around like blind mice searching for whatever it is we're looking for. From mice to miserable men, from the poetry of childhood's hour to the darkness of death's goddamn dominion, we never stop searching. Why can't we just be?
Gregory Hughes
#46. There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.
Cate Tiernan
#47. But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.
Odysseus Elytis
#48. She knew me beyond my actions
Beyond my shallow attempts at happiness.
She knew I had darkness
And when I undressed
And showed her what I was made of
She nodded
Knowing I was unrepairable
And said
'I'll be here for you anyway
Stacy Morris
#49. When the darkness arrives at the doorstep of the light, it should be a moment of celebration and acceptance, not an excuse for more separation.
Delano Johnson
#50. Let me live my final days whole.
Let my memory remain that I might know love's face.
Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers.
I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness.
Susie Clevenger
#51. I believe the night I've never met
hides one elusive star I need
to divide me between darkness and light
Munia Khan
#52. Life's waters flow from darkness, Search the darkness, don't run from it.
Rumi
#53. Laying in a hammock, darkness surrounds me.
Fida Islaih
#54. I didn't trust it for a moment
but I drank it anyway,
the wine of my own poetry.
It gave me the daring to take hold
of the darkness and tear it down
and cut it into little pieces.
Lala
#55. A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark
Criss Jami
#56. The garden was full of sorrow
Songbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhyme
Clouds caused to appear and cast down darkness
For this was the first day the sun didn't shine
John E. Wordslinger
#58. Loneliness of heart
In the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear ...
M.I. Ghostwriter
#59. That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness. (Your smile, p. 56)
Chimnese Davids
#60. My wild heart craves shadows. Like a bat unfurling its wings, I open myself to darkness; I open myself to truth.
Nichole McElhaney
#61. Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.
Alexander McCall Smith
#64. Take off your sweater in the darkness and static flares as a tiny lightning storm - I am the same at the end of your fingertips ...
John Geddes
#65. Love me
get lost in me
but beware
side effects include
a lot of shivering, baby
a lot of drinking, maybe
a lot of sinking, baby
Casey Renee Kiser
#66. We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.
Sanober Khan
#68. Night never needs a shade
but it requires to fade
into the grin of twinkling stars
where light is just a glint of scars
Munia Khan
#69. Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.
Drew Myron
#73. By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the darkness
Pablo Neruda
#74. When Darkness surrounds you, look for the stars. When Jealousy whispers, kill it with laughter. When Hate hurts you, love with all your strength.
M.J. Abraham
#75. Christopher loved her with the passion of youth, of imagination, of poetry, of all the fresh beginnings of wonder and worship that have been since love first lit his torch and made in the darkness a great light.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#76. Bring a song with you into the darkness.
Marty Rubin
#77. From the opening lines of the play Three Travelers Watch a Sunrise
All you need,
To find poetry,
Is to look for it with a lantern.
Wallace Stevens
#78. Only tears can hear the sound of pain
when warm blood reddens discolored stain
Munia Khan
#79. He moves in darkness as it seems to me
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
Robert Frost
#80. And then,
There was a love
Shining so bright,
That even the darkest part
Of our hearts
Felt the warmth
Bryonie Wise
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