Poetry Writing Quotes

“A poet is a unique creature that resides within a human being, embodying a distinct kind of consciousness.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“sometimes i am not sure.
if i am
writing the poem
or the poem
is writing me.”
― Sanober Khan

“My Love Affair with Writing
...Immersing it with meanings
Yet unwritten to curious eyes
Gradually heightens my senses
Only to be consumed in that moment
Of ineffable bliss
That mystery...
That thrill
And the liberating feel
Of finding my heart
Engulfed
In all of it...”
― Mystqx Skye, Bared - Beneath a Myriad of Skies

“السيئات يذهبن الحسنات...
الجميلات يذهبن العقل...”
― Mahdi Mansour

“أجمل الأوطان، تلك التي تأخذ شكل امرأة...”
― Mahdi Mansour

“You cannot be a great bard unless you’ve had at least one great experience, and you cannot sing of valor, villainy, heroism, loss, love, or betrayal unless you’ve experienced them firsthand.”
― Scott Davis Howard, Three Days and Two Knights

“All a writer needs is raw talent, along with years of self-doubt and rejections.”
― Christina Strigas

“Mother Nature is a great writing teacher; she never misses a chance to make you smell the flowers and then takes them away. There, she says, “now produce a rose.”
― Nanette L Avery

“I don't write. Stories and poems are already embedded in my heart and mind. I just copy and paste.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“I think, secretly, that my poems actually do rhyme. It’s just that the rhyme is what I would call ‘conceptual,’ that is, not made of sounds, but of ideas that accomplish what the sounds do in formal poetry: to connect elements that one wouldn’t have expected, and to make the reader or listener, even if just for a moment, feel the complexity and disorder of life, and at the same time what Wallace Stevens called the ‘obscurity of an order, a whole.”
― Matthew Zapruder

“لا يجرح السيف غمداً وهو يطعنه!
ويجرح القلب صدرٌ وهو يحتضنُ…”
― Mahdi Mansour

“لم آتِ، لكني أتيتُ...
ومضيتُ لكن ما مضيتُ
قلقاً على شكل النهايةِ
لا ابتديتُ ولا انتهيتُ
ورأيتُ أني لو أراك
أريق بعدك ما رأيتُ..
الليل صبحٌ مضمرٌ
والضوء قبل صباه زيتُ
وأنا وأنت غمامتان
نضيء أجمل ما اكتويتُ
فعلام تجمعنا الأماكن
طالما الكلمات بيتُ؟!
وإلام نسكبُ والقناني
تحتسيني ما احتسيتُ
إني أطعتُ قصيدتي
وندمت أن نفسي عصيتُ”
― Mahdi Mansour

“أصعب رحيل على الإطلاق هو ذلك الذي يأخذ شكل البقاء...”
― Mahdi Mansour