If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.
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Mik Everett
Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.

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Unknown
She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.
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Robert M. Drake
Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.
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Robert M. Drake
Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
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Robert M. Drake
More Quotes By Dorianne Laux
Death comes to me again, a girlin a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darknessand silence. There are windchimesand the smell of lemons, some daysit rains, but more often the air is dryand sweet. I...
Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not...
Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be...
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.
