I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Pablo NerudaDays of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow’s dark array, – Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.
Jean-Jacques RousseauYou rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.
Maya AngelouMaidens like moths are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.
Lord ByronSome good, some so-so and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my friend
Marcus AureliusPound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest HemingwayGood night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William ShakespeareTeach you children poetry, it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter ScottAll religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe