Poetry Quote by Peter Meinke — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.”

“If thou must love me, let it be for naught”

“Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate...”

“One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.”

“I keep stars in my pockets wear daisies in my hair but I tuck you tenderly”

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.”