Poetry Month Quotes

#1. April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.

T. S. Eliot

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

Aberjhani

#3. I realized

June had never been
just a month

music...
never just a tremble
on my lips

warmth was never
merely a blanket.

Sanober Khan

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

John Myhill

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

Aberjhani

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

Aberjhani

#7. I hope for a light grief in old age.
I was born in Rome and it has returned to me.
My autumn was a kind of she-wolf,
And August - the month of Caesars - smiled at me.

Osip Mandelstam

#8. Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

Pablo Neruda

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

Aberjhani

#10. 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

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

Aberjhani

#12. 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

#13. Wade Dooley: With a handle like that he sounds more like a western sheriff than the Lancashire bobby that he is.

Norman Mair

#14. Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

Gautama Buddha

#15. The refusal to love is the only unbearable thing.

Madeleine L'Engle

#16. Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

Dorothy Thompson

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Aberjhani

#20. Although he may have brilliant prospects to look at, he quietly remains (in his proper place), indifferent to them.

Lao-Tzu

#21. The Epic?" Raylynn raised her eyebrows. "You actually read through it?" "Of course." Vhalla couldn't fathom who wouldn't finish a book once they'd started.

Elise Kova

#22. Lesson learned: If you're already resorting to writing shitty poetry (not the lovey-dovey kind) to get your guys attention within one month of meeting him, he is not the one.

Kate Madison

#23. To pursue peace, be patient and peaceful.

Debasish Mridha