Quotes from Terri Guillemets

A poet builds his nest in the springtime tree of wild reverie, and ends up staying the year.

...the swirling autumn leaves of a poet's dying words...

poetry leafs out like trees words rustle in the breeze punctuate — birds & bees

Poetry staggers, drunken but wise, amongst the stars. Philosophy plots its own steady course to the sun.

A poet swallows life and exhales painted words.

Her poetry cries crimson roses and laughs in spritely daisies.

A poet rips his flesh on the thorn of language and bleeds raw ink onto paper petals.

I bleed words, Ink drops, and Poetry merges— Blackish-crimson Autobiography

Ink kisses dripping crimson words and with blood-red lips leaves prints on her finest poetry.

It's easier to write poetry on a bad day, when your heart has been halved and emotions bleed out through the pen.

Poetry cries melodic tears of verse.

Soldiers in the war of poetry Bleed silky rose petals and glittering thorns And leave behind beautiful inked destruction— Embattled souls wounded, and healed.

Poetry should never hurt. It may stab you with poetic pangs of melancholy but shouldn't ever hurt as life does.

A poet rarely swashes ink but mostly mists at subtleties.

Poetry staggers amongst stars, drunk on the night.

I yearn to fall asleep to the rose-scented burning-pink smoke and dreamy aromas of soul-poetry, so that I wake to a poem-tinted dawn and morning's sweet fragrance lays out my new day's path in flowers of purpose and joy.

Poetry and love can calculate past infinity.

poetry is flitting butterfly words leaving inky spots on fragile papery wings

poets swing too high until the chain kinks and snaps mid-air the fall is poetry

A rose in sunlight is nature. A rose in the dark is poetry.

I sew my life together with the glittering threads of poetry.

Poetry touches upon the entire spectrum, from lost to found — and sometimes back again.

If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow.

You don't always have to pray for something, or to someone — you can just, simply, pray.