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Quotes About Desire

Poetry keeps longing alive.
~ Robert Bly
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.
~ Robert Frost
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)
~ William Shakespeare
I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.
~ Delano Johnson, Love Quotes
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!
~ Jennifer Stone
We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.
~ Alison Hawthorne Deming
He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.
~ Ann Aguirre
I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.
~ Ama Ata Aidoo
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.
~ Eliza Griswold
Poetry is fired by love.
~ Erica Jong
Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason.
~ Hamza Hassan Sheikh
You are only as touched my the magic of this life as you want to be.
~ Mia Hollow
She's burning and out of control and everything I love about fire.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
I want to have a romance so grand, it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.
~ Sanober Khan
If I can't spend the rest of my life with you, I will live alone.
~ Delano Johnson, Love Quotes
May I live to see the day when I long for the agony I feel now. /????? ??????? ????? ??????? ??????
~ Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
~ Guy Johnson
For what is a dream if not love first felt and what is mystery if not life itself
~ Giselle V. Steele
Her kiss dissolves the universe. In that moment, I am unmade and then reborn.
~ John Mark Green
Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
~ Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.
~ Chelsey Minnis
I'm looking for youinto that silverspoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables- from the poem "Looking For You
~ Munia Khan
I miss you, I miss you at night, I can't sleep without you anymore, I'm scared. Meet me in heaven.
~ Efdal Korkmaz