#poe

Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#poetry #tragedy #life

(I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life, marvelous so marvelous like eating cold olives at 3 am with half the town on fire) ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life

you’re already naked in this world in this time in this life beacause your next love your next hunger you next laughter and even your next tear may never come ↗

— Baharak Sedigh

#love #persian-poetry #poetry #life

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green Desert Father} ↗

— Richard Mc Sweeney

#esoteric #fashion #freedom-of-thought #ireland #irish-poet

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#poetry #life

Praise I cannot say it with mere words Convincingly So I sing it with the life I live Unflinchingly ↗

— Linford Detweiler

#life

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

#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection, truly possessed. ↗

— Robert Wells

#pillar #poetry #travel #treasure #value

I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#poetry #life

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#body #chest #forward #guitar #heart