To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make the word 'dark' be something positive. You can relieve a word like 'hysterical' of its misogynistic implications. You can make the language your own. That's what poetry is about.
I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.
Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.
I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.
When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.
Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.
It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that. " Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination. '
When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.
Her heart pounded as [Cam's] lips bypassed hers and came to a stop, whispering in her ear: 'Don't let him flip you off next time.
Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.
Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. ". . . Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her. " "Who was it?" "His own wife. " "Oh, dear.
This feels like a Steve Bannon whispering in [Donald Trump's] ear.
I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.
Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other.
My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.
Many feel the terms "Sabbath day" and "play day" are synonymous. . . . But I. . . know that remembering to keep the Sabbath day holy is one of the most important commandments we can observe in preparing us to be the recipients of the whisperings of the Spirit.
There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.