I like my writing career and it’s progression, I’d rather be that slow moving tide that turns a mountain into a beautiful beach for all to enjoy, rather than a flash in a pan that...

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he’s hardly ever mentioned.

Dance provides the spirit with energy to survive from its confinement in the mortal frame.

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement....

Aspirations don’t make poets, perseverance does. Flow with the emotions, let your imagination soar, find what ignites the fire within and let it go wild.

Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn’t climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.

I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look!

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold…

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here;My heart’s in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I go.

Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.

Another breath, left to translate

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

…the Moon, the enemy of poets…(“Merchant’s Two Sons”)

At times like these being a poetic bitch is all I have to hold on to.

…Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim ‘Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing’…Page 100.

In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a...

Souls of poets dead and gone, / What Elysium have ye known, / Happy field or mossy cavern, / Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? / Have ye tippled drink more fine / Than mine host’s...

A Coy Aversion…a fluttertoo shyto be seen…

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He’s had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in...

Almighty God created a dancer as a symbol of the reflection of artistry in motion.

Sword of Raks is a symbol of a dancer with creative empowerment

All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.

A poem is a naked person….Some people say that I am a poet.

I promised her that I would never kiss and tell, but I have to tell someone about my dreams and fairytales. So I’m telling you that I kissed her.

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

Earth is crammed with heaven, and every bush is aflame with the glory of God. But only those who see take of their shoes; the rest just pick the berries.

Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like...

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and...

as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?

…Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death...

God sent as a revelation the gift of dance so his creation may experience one of the divine pleasures of paradise.

All of us,’ he said, ‘have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in...

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

If I knew what to doI’d do more than write a song for you

It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the non-punishment of a certain act of iniquity proved that there were no gods....

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

You spoke to her, in hidden dreams…and smiled at her through open doors. She felt your secret love surround her at times. And while alone she felt your breath, heartbeat and more… Serenity of hers...

…writers, like priests, should have compassion…and a sensitivity to pain…