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poetry.
is the fire leaving my body.


Nayyirah Waheed

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Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind"
Nayyirah Waheed
NAYYIRAH WAHEED when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship be what...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED my poetry is merely a body.
you are the soul in my words.
SANOBER KHAN The movement
Of the body is

Where poetry
Begins
CLINT CATALYST If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSON If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry....
EMILY DICKINSON if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water ...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is no...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED it was only and ever love.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i think one of the most pathological things i have ever seen is stabbing someone and then telling th...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have ne...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting t...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED but this was never a relationship. i have no idea who you are.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED put some honey and sea
water by your bed.
acknowledge. that your being needs sweetness
NAYYIRAH WAHEED leaving. doesn’t mean that you’ve left.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i have always been the woman of my dreams.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED there are feelings. you haven’t felt yet. give them time. they are almost here. – fresh
NAYYIRAH WAHEED listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED go.
enjoy.
leave.
it was all about you, anyway.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED No’ might make them angry but it will make you free.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.


Read it ove...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i knew you
before
i met you.
i’ve known you my whole life.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and be...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED there is you and you.
this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED the first time the caregiver saw it on the child. they said ‘no. don’t you dare. you will not gr...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED do not choose the lesser life. do you hear me. do you hear me. choose the life that is. yours. the l...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I...
EMILY DICKINSON Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Pain is weakness leaving the body.
DANIEL R. EVANS Pain is weakness leaving the body.
ANONYMOUS Pain is weakness leaving the body
TERA LYNN CHILDS Pain is weakness leaving the body
TOM SOBAL Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.
Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
STEPHEN WRIGHT poetry
melts my bones.
enters my blood.

and changes
its composition.
SANOBER KHAN ...the trouble with poetry is
that it encourages the writing of more poetry...

BILLY COLLINS Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD He was a late night
shot of bourbon
the taste of him
left me burning
with mouth...
MELODY LEE Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.
STEPHEN KING Poetry is an act of love.
Without love life is impossible.
Without poetry love has no ex...
DEBASISH MRIDHA I am certain,
my love,
that poetry was born
only after your birth.
KAMAND KOJOURI At Blackwater Pond

At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a...
MARY OLIVER Your hair is winter fire,
January embers.
My heart burns there, too.
-Stephen King, I...
STEPHEN KING I tried to hold fire once...see from a distance it mesmerized me
captivated me
for hours...
SANJO JENDAYI Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen du...
CARL SANDBURG Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is s...
CARL SANDBURG What's the difference?" You ask me
The difference is, a smile touches my lips
When I remem...
TAMMY-LOUISE WILKINS I wait on my fix:
I am a poetry junkie.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I like imagining your body is Saturn,
my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.
ANDREA GIBSON I like imagining your body is Saturn,
my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.
ANDREA GIBSON My arms look
as if blood is . . .
And on my feet . . .
It is dropping on my feet. SANDRA HARNER My mouth is a fire escape.
The words coming out
don’t care that they are naked.
The...
ANDREA GIBSON Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is s...
CARL SANDBURG I'll walk through the fire
With my head lifted high
And my spirit revived
In Your sto...
HILLSONG The Church says: the body is a sin.
Science says: the body is a machine.
Advertising says:...
EDUARDO GALEANO Elizabeth's fingers slipped around my arm. She stepped forward, her fangs flashing. My breath caught...
KALAYNA PRICE ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.
HAMLET The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of th...
LAUREN OLIVER Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.
ADRIAN MITCHELL It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And ...
MAYA ANGELOU Jamie: It's my favorite time of day, driving you.
Aurelia: [in Portuguese] It is the saddest pa...
LOVE ACTUALLY I would rather lie facedown on the ground
and use my body as a bridge,
than stand proud ...
KAMAND KOJOURI I am five, I will never understand
why we are stranded in our selves
but in this moment I ...
SHARON DOUBIAGO The blood jet is poetry
There is no stopping it.
SYLVIA PLATH The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
Are my trous...
MARJANE SATRAPI When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fir...
CESARE PAVESE She’s leaving me!”
“Leaving? She’s been waiting for you to get your shit together.” KATIE MCGARRY You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? Th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY While I was looking the other way your fire went out
Left me with cinders to kick into dust
KRISTIN CASHORE Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی All I want in my life is-
My mind to Think and My body to Run.
MANALI My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Yo...
N.D. JONES Divine love"

"Don't Leave me,
ONLY
To carry my body
on my two feet
SEEMA GUPTA Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted.<...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gin a body meet a body
Coming thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body—
Need a body c...
ROBERT BURNS Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.
WALT WHITMAN Good poetry ..
makes the universe ..
reveal its .. 'secret'
HAFIZ OF PERSIA Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage - his name is...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The 'fire' present in our body helps in keeping us alive. Therefore, to maintain the required body-t...
SAM VEDA The fire district is a political subdivision; the commissioners are the governing body of the subdiv...
ROBERT FREEMAN Poetry is the language of the soul;
Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.
Each line must...
LORI R. LOPEZ Felix,” he whispered. “Oh, little man. Oh, Felix. That fire… the fire is
beautiful.
T.J. KLUNE Nobody ever called me any OH MY GOD you mean that guy that one that set himself on FIRE JOSS WHEDON In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.
ARZUM UZUN Poetry

And it was at that age... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don’t k...
PABLO NERUDA Poetry looking in the mirror sees art,
and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANI My mind is being consumed by you.
My body is longing for you.
Just one touch or a kiss, <...
KAMAND KOJOURI You’re just using me for my body.” “You don’t have a body,” I’d remind him.
“Thr...
DARYNDA JONES And now the measure of my song is done:
The work has reached its end; the book is mine,
...
OVID If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
PABLO NERUDA Poetry is the heart of my mind.
LEAH DANCEL A Tartar's heart is a quarter poetry, a quarter fire, a quarter wind of heaven, and a quarter the te...
BRYN HAMMOND This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE

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if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water ...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is no...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED it was only and ever love.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i think one of the most pathological things i have ever seen is stabbing someone and then telling th...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant
NAYYIRAH WAHEED when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship be what...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have ne...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED expect sadness
like
you expect rain.
both,
cleanse you.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting t...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED but this was never a relationship. i have no idea who you are.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED put some honey and sea
water by your bed.
acknowledge. that your being needs sweetness
NAYYIRAH WAHEED leaving. doesn’t mean that you’ve left.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i have always been the woman of my dreams.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED there are feelings. you haven’t felt yet. give them time. they are almost here. – fresh
NAYYIRAH WAHEED listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED go.
enjoy.
leave.
it was all about you, anyway.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind"
Nayyirah Waheed
NAYYIRAH WAHEED No’ might make them angry but it will make you free.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.


Read it ove...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i knew you
before
i met you.
i’ve known you my whole life.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and be...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED there is you and you.
this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED the first time the caregiver saw it on the child. they said ‘no. don’t you dare. you will not gr...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED i am mine.
before i am ever anyone else's.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED do not choose the lesser life. do you hear me. do you hear me. choose the life that is. yours. the l...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED We are in limbo. What happens next? Until they make the new city the government must give us earthqu...
ABDUL WAHEED We are in limbo. What happens next?
ABDUL WAHEED That is a clear violation. They just can't search a vehicle like that, not after a routine speeding ...
WAHEED KHALID Things happen for a reason; and the reason is hidden
FAISAL WAHEED This huge demonstration will send a clear signal that although Muslims are ready to hear and respond...
IMRAN WAHEED This is a blurring of the margins of people who are engaged in non-violent political speech, an atte...
IMRAN WAHEED Even though the party has been open to intellectual debate and even though the prime minister said h...
IMRAN WAHEED There will be serious repercussions in terms of community relations if this ban goes ahead. Our memb...
IMRAN WAHEED We have a lot of support among the Muslim community in Britain and it will be seen by the Muslim com...
IMRAN WAHEED There will be serious repercussions in terms of community relations if this ban goes ahead,
IMRAN WAHEED By doing this, he (Blair) is setting an example to the tyrant rulers of the Muslim world, encouragin...
IMRAN WAHEED It has had a history of non-violence for the last 50 years and these measures are like what we have ...
IMRAN WAHEED Hizb ut-Tahrir is a non-violent political party,
IMRAN WAHEED You never know with kids. I just told them if they had an open look, go ahead and shoot.
WAHEED MITCHELL There’s a difference between a clever person and a smart one. Smart people make their own ways, an...
WAHEED IBNE MUSA Fever is a symptom of your body when it is undergoing the process of fighting against illness or dis...
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