Poetry Quote by robert m drake — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”

“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.”

“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.”

“I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.”

“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”

“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.”

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.... One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word; one must be able to give one's writing unexpected effects. It must have a hectic, anguished vehemence, so that it rushes past like a gust of air, and it must have a latent, roistering tenderness so that it creeps and steals one's mind; it must be able to ring out like a sea-shanty in a tremendous hour, in the time of the tempest, and it must be able to sigh like one who, in tearful mood, sobs in his inmost heart.”

“Do not turn me”

“To be loved is all I need,”

“Just know I am”

“Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!”

“Here’s a hand to the boy who has courage”