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"I may write in silence, but my words will always be heard." - Marie Summers

"The sun cannot set without a poem being born!" - Connie Marcum Wong

"The tears of the poet fill the pen." - Floria

"A Poet's ink never dries." - Marie Summers

"Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul." - Henrik Ibsen

"Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep." - Sally Ann Roberts

"Wine is bottled poetry." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." - G. K. Chesterton

"Poetry is a mere drug, Sir." - George Farquhar (Love and a Bottle, 1698)

"Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity." - Sally Ann Roberts

"Poetry is the doorway to the soul." - Floria Kelderhouse

"Write the bad things that happen to you in the sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." - Unknown

"Precious words like a river always fall from a poets lips." - Sybil Shearin

"Apart from the romantic reasons to write, poetry is for soul searches." - Therese Meade

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." - Oscar Wilde

"There is no shorter time than time trapped between 'I love' and 'I love you not'." - Lonnie Hicks

"To write a poem is to show your heart and soul to the world." - fallenchild

"Words written in verse may speak volumes when those spoken do not." - Caressia Combs

"Poetry is the silent voice that is heard everywhere inside of us..." - Unknown

"Poem without rhyme, is the greatest crime." - Dr. Hitesh Sheth

"In poetry, syntaxes have little meaning, the order of the words is the order of your heart." - Peter A. Rosado



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