David Jones on poetry
David Jones41 quotes“All the poetry in the world could not put us together again.”
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I didn’t ask because I was afraid of the answer.
David JonesDavid Jones Heartbroken over a love that didn’t even exist.
David JonesDavid Jones And then there are songs I cannot listen to, without hearing you.
David JonesDavid Jones How sad to miss someone, who you know doesn’t miss you.
David JonesDavid Jones But I fell in love with an impossibility.
David JonesDavid Jones Two soulmates who didn’t find each other.
David JonesDavid Jones Was I too soft, or was the world too hard?
David JonesDavid Jones A story of modern love- two people neither wanting to text first.
David JonesDavid Jones Deep down you always knew.
David JonesDavid Jones Despite everything I’m glad we met.
David JonesDavid Jones You were my dream and the problem with dreams is that you always wake up.
David JonesDavid Jones I looked at you and felt the stars go out in my heart.
David JonesDavid Jones Find the one you can talk to, when you can’t talk to anybody else.
David JonesDavid Jones Your eyes stole all my words away.
David JonesDavid Jones Half the world is carrying a broken heart, half the world is dreaming of being put together again.
David JonesDavid Jones Maybe one day we will travel the world together.
David JonesDavid Jones
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on poetry
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
John KeatsJohn Keats Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
Stephanie BriarStephanie Briar At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit RaySatyajit Ray Poetry is the loveliest art. It has a wretched way of revealing our own character when we think we are judging the poets.
Nicole LyonsNicole Lyons There is poetry in your shadows.
Isabel RocioIsabel Rocio If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.
John KeatsJohn Keats The poetry of earth is never dead When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide I cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
John KeatsJohn Keats Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley
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