Writing Poems Quotes

“I was mistaken
when I said you
live in my heart.
How absurd I was
when you live in my
fingertips so that everything
I touch is you. How foolish
I was when you live in my toes
so that everywhere I go there's you.
How senseless of me to say
you live in my heart
when you breathe in my lungs,
walk on my mind, and
drink in my mouth. I came to
pen another poem for you,
but even every unwritten poem
is you.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I only wrote prose before I met you.
My musings were superfluous and serious as well.
But now the words dance with me.
I sing with them
and we create poetry.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I am going to build a fortress of books.
Will you come inside and live with me?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“These poems are cups
that I pour my love into.
Here,
Drink!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“In the very end,
all we have left
to atone for
our faults
are words.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Why Do I Write?⁣⁣
Isn’t it obvious?⁣⁣
I write because these words⁣⁣
form a bridge⁣⁣
that take me to you.⁣⁣
Go to my desk⁣⁣
and ask my pen.⁣⁣
Swift through the once naked pages⁣⁣
and ask the ink:⁣⁣
”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Why Do I Write?
Isn’t it obvious?
I write because these words
form a bridge
that take me to you.
Go to my desk
and ask my pen.
Swift through the once naked pages
and ask the ink:
Why does she write?
They’ll reaffirm these words:
She is proud of you.
She is proud of knowing you,
of loving you.
Yes, proud. I am proud
to have chosen you to love.
To me, it isn’t even a question—
one must always yield to love.
Yes, love. We must love
if only because we are alive.
But who to love—that is the question.
I write because
you are my answer.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Why is it surprising that I,
your Little Sequin,
can write devastating love poems?
Tell me how you can spot
the violent storms inside a heart?
Can you identify which person
is going through a revolution?
Which is revolting against their thoughts
and overthrowing their mind, only
to make their heart king?
There is a world inside each of us.
By writing,
I hope to share mine with you.
So please,
step inside.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I guess I have no choice
But to toss all novels under the rug
Nothing can compete with the poetry bug”
― Maddy Kobar, The Songs of The Gullible Wiseman: The Early Poems of Maddy Kobar, 2008-2013

“This poem was meant
to be unwritten.
But I am writing it now
and have thereby changed
destiny.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Isn't it far better to live a poetic life than to spend one's life writing Poetry?”
― Pietros Maneos, The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos

“Writing a poem is a form of listening, helping me discover what's wrong or frightening in my world as well as what delights me.”
― Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words

“A friend from Boston wrote something to me last week
about not having the intelligence
to take as subject for his poems
anything other than his own life.”
― M.L. Smoker, Another Attempt at Rescue