A poem in the heart is worthmore than a million dollarsin the bank account.
Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more,Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.
A poet's fantasy: Hiring a rapper to rap his rhymes.
Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.
Darkness is the womb from which a poet is born.
Traveling down a road of self-destructionWith no room for any reconstruction
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.
Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages.
I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead
Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.
A change of style is a change of meaning.
GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it...
When I reached the vestibule of my apartment building, the campus police closed in on me. I heard Professor Edelstein shout, it's okay, he's a poet. Matter of fact, the best black ... the best poet wr...
The older poets were Ethelbert Miller, Kenneth Carroll, Brian Gilmore. It is important that I tell you their names, that you know that I have never achieved anything alone.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe helps to extend eve...