{"quotes":[{"text":"A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["agonise","agonising","assume","bride","cadence","consume","creative-writing","creativity","dandelion","erase","fly","forgotten","groom","hands","heart","hips","ink","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","letters","lips","mark","marriage","months","novelist","page","paper","pen","pencil","penned","poems-on-writing","poet","poetess","poetry","quote","on-writing","rhyme","rotten","selfish","selfishness","silences","sodden","spaces","think","trodden","windy","word","words","write","writer","writing","written","wrote"],"id":52245,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Take me to your darkest cornersand watch your demonssurrender to mine..","author":"Anjum Choudhary","tags":["anjumchoudhary","artist","bipolar","book","couples","demons","depression","findinglostsouls","inspirational","inspirational","instagram","instaquote","king","love","lovequotes","me","motivation","motivational","poem","poems","poet","poetess","queen","souledout","strong-woman","surrender","true-love","truth","us","watch","writer","writing","you"],"id":60300,"author_id":"Anjum+Choudhary"},{"text":"I was lost for too longbut when I found you,I could feel it in my bones.You were my home.","author":"Anjum Choudhary","tags":["anjumchoudhary","artist","bipolar","book","couples","depression","findinglostsouls","inspirational","inspirational","instagram","instaquote","king","love","lovequotes","me","motivation","motivational","poem","poems","poet","poetess","queen","souledout","strong-woman","true-love","truth","us","writer","writing","you"],"id":63433,"author_id":"Anjum+Choudhary"},{"text":"Is it not enough to dip your tongue into my soul and write poetry?","author":"Evelyn Lielou Colon","tags":["beautiful-writing","chapter-13-poet-society","courage-to-be-oneself","heroes","inspirational","love-at-first-sight","love","poetess","poetry","poets-writers","self-esteem","self-motivational","talents-and-gifts"],"id":93393,"author_id":"Evelyn+Lielou+Colon"},{"text":"I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beautiful","beauty","beloved","boyfriend","encourage","friend","girlfriend","harmony","husband","illuminate","in-love","inspiration","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","light","love","love-is-love","love-movement","love-poems","love-poetry","love","love-wins","lover","night","one-love","partner","poem","poet","poetess","poetry","poetry","positive","positivity","relationship","short-love-poems","short-poems","soul","soulmate","spend","spouse","sufi","sufism","union","unity","uplift","wear","weave","weaver","weaving","wife","write","writer","writing"],"id":100296,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["analogy","anew","art","bath","change","clothes","creative-arts","emerge","fear","immerse","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","metamorphosis","metaphor","novelist","poem","poesia","poetess","poetry","poetry","quote","read","reading","reading","soak","touch","transcend","transcendence","transform","undress","water","wet","write","writing"],"id":125712,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["art","artist","books","classical-music","creative","creativity","drank","drink","drinking","drunk","dry","inspiration","inspire","intoxicate","intoxicated","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","muse","music","novelist","pen","poem","poet","poetess","read","reader","reading","run","runs-dry","spill","spill-out","words","write","writer","writing","writing"],"id":127979,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["always","brief","compose","endure","enduring","ephemera","ephemeral","eternal","eternity","fleeting","forever","here","immortal","immortality","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lasting","living","momentary","mortal","novelist","passing","permanence","permanent","perpetual","poem","poet","poetess","poetry","poetry","read","reader","reading","recite","short","sit","temporary","transient","transitory","write","writer","writing","writing"],"id":189771,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I stopped losing my sleep over you...Now I lie awakein search of me!!","author":"Anjum Choudhary","tags":["anjumchoudhary","artist","beautiful","bipolar","book","couples","depression","findinglostsouls","inspirational","inspirational","instagram","instaquote","king","lose","love","lovequotes","me","motivation","motivational","poem","poems","poet","poetess","queen","sleep-awake","souledout","strong-woman","true","true-love","truth","us","writer","writing","you"],"id":191043,"author_id":"Anjum+Choudhary"},{"text":"I hide myself behind, a cloud of smoke; the smoke screen varies, dependent on the variable. The variable consists of: stress, anguish, boredom, madness, anger, depression, apathy, negativity, sex, violence \u0026 a little chunk of chaos.","author":"Emily H. Sturgill","tags":["metaphors","poems","poetess","smoker"],"id":212231,"author_id":"Emily+H.+Sturgill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}