Drowning Poetry Quotes

#1. I'm fighting for the girls that never thought they could win.

Nicki Minaj

#2. Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Elizabeth George

#3. The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting
Against those who were drowning them in the ocean.
The horses sank to the bottom, neighing, neighing.
Until they had all gone down.
That is all. Nevertheless, I pity them,
Those bay horses, that never saw land again.

Boris Slutsky

#4. If it doesn't feel like your heart
is either drowning or is being set on fire
then it probably isn't worth it at all.

Love is all consuming.
It is the perfect murder,
the sweetest suicide.

Let it kill you.

It's worth it, I swear.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#5. Ya got cigarettes?" she asks. "Yes," I say,
"I got cigarettes." "Matches?" she asks.
"Enough to burn Rome." "Whiskey?"
"Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River
of pain." "You drunk?" "Not yet.

Charles Bukowski

#6. Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.

Ted Hughes

#7. The power of a woman is in the tears she sheds, and the power of a man is wiping those tears while shedding his own.

Michael Jones

#8. It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.

Albion Fellows Bacon

#9. I'd Drown For You
I opened my heart to you
A complete immersion
I offered my soul to you
A heavenly diversion

Muse

#10. She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world.

Ai Yazawa

#11. I think I know already what counsel you would give, Boromir," said Frodo. "And it would seem like wisdom but for the warning of my heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. Unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning

William Carlos Williams

#13. I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

Michael Jones

#14. I love being able to see an un-written future.

Michael Jones

#15. I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind of warped women's minds into thinking we don't know how to birth and we need doctors and epidurals and Pitocin.

Sarah Shahi