Poetry Quote by Kaveh Akbar — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Art is where what we survive survives.”

“I'm becoming more a vessel of memories than a person it's a myth /”

“Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.”

“I bade good morrow,”

“When you were sleeping on the sofa”

“We were never supposed to be in love; for everything that exists inside a heart eventually dies.”

“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.”

“How clear, how lovely bright,”