National Poetry Month Quotes

#1. For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

Robert Motherwell

#2. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Neil Gaiman

#3. On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage.

Aberjhani

#4. I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

Che Guevara

#5. I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

Aberjhani

#6. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.

Aberjhani

#7. Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

Anish Kapoor

#8. Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Aberjhani

#9. In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Aberjhani

#10. Now my sole function in this world is to serve as receptacle for the proof that I am inconsequential; every experience I accrete is only another stroke of an eraser.

Evan Dara

#11. Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life's journey and with Elemental's Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.

Luther E. Vann

#12. At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Aberjhani

#13. Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Aberjhani

#14. Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Aberjhani

#15. No non-poetic account of reality can be complete.

John Myhill

#16. True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#17. To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Aberjhani