Firebird
A source page for quotes linked to Ben Ditmars.
Related Quotes
“I played until my lips gave out on cigarettes and thoughts of you.”
Source: Mirrored Voices: Best Modern Poets
“May you feel love unclouded and unjaded by experience.”
Source: Four Paws: A Poetry Anthology by The Quillective Project
“Men aren’t saints, Leanne, the best of them will use you.”
Source: Sleeping With Earth
“When you have a soul sometimes it burns.”
Source: Conversations
“we whisper songs about scars trepidation before letting go.”
Source: Mirrored Voices : Best Contemporary Poetry
“Golden brown syrup light pranced upon his melancholy face. The flickering was somewhat surreal.”
Source: Gnomes of Coyul: The Crystal Staff
“festive hearts wane and sink like tides of joy.”
Source: Night Poems
“I met her on a dating app she had to be the one or something like it.”
Source: Splinters
“Even in wreckage Even in shattered glass And broken bones. There is beauty. There is us.”
Source: Flowers for Ukraine
“They are still enough to bend the world.”
Source: Flowers for Ukraine
“My name is Jeff Witherspork. I always thought I was the only one.”
Source: Witherspork
“I feel our dark hearts shadow night stars.”
Source: Inhale the Night
“I have flirted with disaster like a miracle reversed midstream.”
Source: Mirrored Voices : Best Contemporary Poetry
Source: Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration
Source: The Zeppelin Chronicles
“glass will cut you every day, and sometimes you will crawl through hell to feel the sun.”
“we can’t choose to be square or circle or a rhombus or a tetrahedron but we are”
Source: Conversations
Source: Ten Minutes in Heaven
“Stay beautiful Like the light you are And shine between us”
Source: Firebird
“She was only another survivor Caught between a rock, A hard place and A broken game…”
Source: Firebird
“she was only fascinated under neptune increasingly outside my reach at night.”
Source: Moments at Midnight: A Poetry Collaboration
“He thinks of subtle, vast unbroken things I can only read about in books or see on screen.”
Source: People Are Strange
“I wasted time and memories on waves.”
Source: Triptychs
“tell mom i love her but i ate an alien… she can’t be near me.”
“Think positive. Think green.”
Source: Splinters
“I was waiting For the rapture And glass To shatter In my hair”
Source: Firebird
“But they were nonetheless consumed with a fire of loyalty, that paid no heed to years or age.”
Source: Gnomes of Coyul: The Crystal Staff
“You are young, so young that failure seems impossible.”
Source: Night Poems
Source: Type 2
Source: Type 2
“red light contradicts blue sky and so much depends on makeshift branches set in stone.”
Source: Mirrored Voices: Emerging Poets Anthology
Source: Number Poetry
Source: Type 2