Poetry Quotes

I only want to write. And there’s no college for that except life. -Dodie Smith

It is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. -Jorge Luis Borges

Under the sky. I have no nostalgia left, I feel at home. -Etty Hillesum

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. -Rumi

If music be the food of love, play on. -William Shakespeare

We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won’t flinch at when they find. -Andrea Gibson

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air, a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody’s head off. -Mary Karr

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. -W. H. Auden

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29 Intriguing Quotes from James Baldwin

29 Intriguing Quotes from James Baldwin

The tired sunsets and tired people it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all

The tired sunsets and tired people it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all

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