Poetry Quote by Stephen Dunn — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I've tried”

“Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.”

“I'll say I love you,”

“I’ll always deny that I kissed her.”

“I will try to disappoint you”

“Success is counted sweetest”

“we must bring”

“love is a deeper season”

“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”

“She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.”

“I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.”