58 Quotes & Sayings By Jenim Dibie

Jenim Dibie is a novelist, poet, and performer. He was born in Kenya, raised in the United States, and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has performed at local venues such as The Great Leap Brewery, The New Parkway Theater, and The Castro Theatre. His first book of poetry (and his debut novel), "The Pharaoh's Shadow," was published by Spuyten Duyvil Press Read more

His work has also appeared in publications such as The Devil's Discourse, Prose Poem Quarterly, The Penmen Review , and others.

My heart's been broken in a thousand pieces I've lived...
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My heart's been broken in a thousand pieces I've lived and died a thousand times And in each of those lifetimes With all of those pieces I chose you… A million times. Jenim Dibie
Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one,...
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Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another. Jenim Dibie
As I read you I fell in love with the...
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As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself. Jenim Dibie
I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music.
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I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music. Jenim Dibie
I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music.
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I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music. Jenim Dibie
The most beautiful things often stand alone.
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The most beautiful things often stand alone. Jenim Dibie
I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going...
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I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me. Jenim Dibie
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We write to go on living, after we have died. Jenim Dibie
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If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you". Jenim Dibie
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Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. Jenim Dibie
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There is still peace left in the world, and only those with beauty in their soul, care enough to be it. Jenim Dibie
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Depression is like waking up and opening the blinds because your plants need sunlight, but it's 8p.m. It's always 8p.m and you keep apologizing for it. Jenim Dibie
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Why can't we breathe now, In this moment we have breath? Jenim Dibie
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My life is a room filled with love letters and goodbye notes. Jenim Dibie
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This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was. Jenim Dibie
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I have these knives in my chest that can't become words. Jenim Dibie
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You are alone, So alone, You speak back to silence. People call it loneliness, You call it solitude, Different words, Meaning the same pain. Jenim Dibie
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You ask me to write you a poem, I pen you an empty ocean, You run away. You ask me who I am, I paint you a breaking sky, You weep in the rain. Jenim Dibie
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2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks. Jenim Dibie
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You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys. Jenim Dibie
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We colour the world, Not with the darkness of our pasts, But with the rainbow of our hope. Jenim Dibie
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I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry. Jenim Dibie
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I have always been a fire, and everyone I loved walked away as ashes, until I met a phoenix who was born to love flames. Jenim Dibie
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I write to forget the days that broke me into a million nights. Jenim Dibie
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I live for the moments that won't die in my memory. Jenim Dibie
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I write these words to touch you, My love, In places my hands can only dream of. Jenim Dibie
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And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air. Jenim Dibie
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Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim. Jenim Dibie
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The ones who love your dark are the only light you'll ever need. Jenim Dibie
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I don't know where to go from here, So I crawl back inside me, And Turn the lights off. Jenim Dibie
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I hope my forgiveness reminds you, Of the part you forgot to break in me. Jenim Dibie
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Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died. Jenim Dibie
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The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly. Jenim Dibie
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Hearts of gold are heavy. Jenim Dibie
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Nos·tal·gia (n):A feeling that lingers long after the taste is gone. Jenim Dibie
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The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me. Jenim Dibie
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You are my favourite part of me. Jenim Dibie
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Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop. Jenim Dibie
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Your eyes see me in ways the mirror never could. Jenim Dibie
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The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader. Jenim Dibie
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Beautiful storms dressed in women's clothing. Jenim Dibie
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My silence is my self-defence. Jenim Dibie
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The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine. Jenim Dibie
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Your words were music to me tonight, but you weren't mine to listen to. Jenim Dibie
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Everything I try to hide ends up screaming from a mountaintop. Jenim Dibie
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We crafted everything that hurt us into art. Jenim Dibie
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I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned. Jenim Dibie
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I am the poet, you are the poem; I hold the pen, you are the words, love is the ink, silence is the blank page. Jenim Dibie
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Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them. Jenim Dibie
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Half the world is wandering, the other half is lost. Jenim Dibie
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I know where nowhere is, I know where nowhere leads, it's the place you go when you have nothing left to lose but you. Jenim Dibie
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You fade slowly till no one sees you disappear. Jenim Dibie
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You never needed wings to fly, You only needed love. Jenim Dibie
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Promises are born broken, to fix them you keep them.. Jenim Dibie
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Let's be incomplete together. Jenim Dibie
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Would you still read me when I become a blank page. Jenim Dibie
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I keep running away, As if from something, As if to something. I keep running away, As if from myself, As if to myself. Jenim Dibie