I recently gave you my 30 top picks for the poetesses.

It would be wrong to leave the gentlemen out, here are my top 30 of the amazing poets.

When you are with her, stay naked in love. Trust comes in the form of many things, but a woman who undresses her fears in front of you is someone you should never leave. It has taken her years to be vulnerable. Don't ruin her because you are afraid of being human.

~ Zachry K. Douglas‍

Tennessee whiskey and memories of your smile don't mix well with ice.

~ Jay Long

When you're in hell, take some notes. Remember who is helping your escape, remember who wants to keep you there, but most importantly, remember who put you there in the first place.

~ Augustus Christopher

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

~ Neil Gaiman

"She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her."

~ John Green

You must stay drunk on writing, so reality cannot destroy you.

~ Ray Bradbury

How beautiful it is when someone is actually what they appear to be or so I've heard…..

~ KDS

Her departure killed me without violence.

~ Clyde Hurlston

The ways we misunderstand each other lays the groundwork for our sins.

~ Matthew D Eayre

Her free spirit, her ability to make love with words, the way she moves when she dances. She elevates everything into an art form and that is one of many reasons why she is irresistible to me. Her masterpiece? The way she moans my name.

~ Mark-Paul Teunissen

Sometimes the greatest love belongs to the woman with a wall up. Climb it ...

~ r.h. sin

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

~ Paulo Coelho

She held him close and whispered in his ear, you don't have to do anything alone anymore.

~ Reggie Nulan

She's a survivor. Scars are what happen when you stop being a victim.

~ n.a. denmon

Inevitably it's not the pain that kills you. It's the memory of the pain.

~R.j.S

Be brave enough to look at yourself honestly. Be accepting enough to love all that you see.

~ Scott Stabile

We wrote about love, our sentences caressing each other like hands on a warm summer night. A story without an ending, written by a pen that would never run dry.

~ Michael Faudet

Do I fear the sleepless nights? You have no idea how long the dark lasts when you cannot close your eyes to it.

~ Tyler Knott Gregson

To love someone, I've not yet met is lunacy. But I know she's out there, and I love her so.

~ Samuel Decker Thompson

You'll never fly again with the weight of hate on your wings.

~ Leo Christopher

Tonight, we run with monsters and sleep with weary sirens in need of temporary shelter. Tonight, we are immortal.

~ Austin Thomas

Their behavior will not change, and you can not live bound by their insecurities. Your voice, your words, they are what matter. Their screams best belong to the void, their claims left to the abyss.

~ eh

We are all ruined in some way, wait for the one that sees the beauty in the fall and art in broken pieces.

~ Jason Kynge ‍

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Be happy or die trying, but fuck settling.

~ j.ironword

Her presence may set your wick on fire, but that does not obligate her to blow it out.

~ Jonny Ox ‍

Make her laugh often. Because of the most beautiful things is to see her smile gone wild.

~ JmStorm

Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them.

~ Steve Maraboli

Somewhere between what she survived, and who she was becoming, was exactly where she was meant to be.

~ J. Raymond

"You'll get what you settle for. If you don't know your value, you'll never get what you're worth."

~ Tony Gaskins