Quotes by Poets - Page 102

The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast. And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches toss'd.
Felicia D. Hemans
So many worlds so much to do So little done such things to be.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.
Lenore Kandel
perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys
Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the dysfunction talking. This is the disease talking. This is how much I miss you talking. This is the deepest blue, talking, talking, always talking to you.
Maggie Nelson
A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie.
Iwan Goll
No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence
William Blake
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson
It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.
Robert M. Drake
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.And since you are a breath in God’s sphere, and a leaf in God’s forest, you too should rest in reason and move in passion.
Kahlil Gibran
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare
There is at least one truth to every myth.
Suzy Kassem
Let your poem be kept nine years.
Horace
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smoke and color was fine, not with the refinement of early civilization art, but because of its originality; with nothing to modify it but the mist that went up, obliqueness was a variation of the perpendicular, plain to see and to account for: it is no longer that; nor did the blue-red-yellow band of incandescence that was color keep its stripe
Marianne Moore
Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.
Suzy Kassem
In a cool solitude of treesWhere leaves and birds a music spin,Mind that was weary is at ease,New rhythms in the soul begin.
William Kean Seymour
And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform. Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Joseph Addison
Oh, you cherry petals, On this calm and balmy day, Why are you so restless, So keen to fly away? / ひさかたの 光のどけき 春の日に しづ心なく 花の散るらむ
Ki no Tomonori
Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.
Lenore Kandel
One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.
Criss Jami
A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
William Stafford
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Cervantes
Night after night on starry wingsNight lovers soared so highMiles apart, across the oceansTheir love forgot to sighIn heavenly flight’s timelessnessThat highest height treasuredInto the deepest of all bluesTheir depth of love measured.From the poem 'The Ballad of Night Lovers
Munia Khan
I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and feel what I felt.
Philip Larkin
the rape willtear youin halfbut it will notend you
Rupi Kaur
There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.
Raymond Carver
Smiles are a funny thingand laughter is hilarious.I smile sometimeswhen I am delirious.
Casey Renee Kiser
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.
William Shakespeare
To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine coneYou never knowtWhat opportunityttIs going to travel to you,tttOr through you.Once a friend gave metA small pine cone-ttOne of a fewtttHe found in the scatOf a grizzlytIn Utah maybe,ttOr Wyoming.tttI took it homeAnd did what I supposedtHe was sure I would do-ttI ate it,tt ThinkingHow it had traveled tThrough that roughttAnd holy body.tttIt was crisp and sweet.It was almost a prayertWithout words.ttMy gratitude, Tom Dancer, tttFor this gift of the worldtttI adore so muchttt And want to belong to.ttttAnd thank you too, great bear
Mary Oliver
The Holy Grail is within you – find your Inner Treasure
Jay Woodman
Beware of desp'rate steps the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.
William Cowper
The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out the media's insistent portrayal of Christianity and feel grateful that he isn't as deceived as the masses who really swallow the garbage. Ignorance is ultimately how people put themselves down, and the mere Christian who knows what entails the mere Christian is ultimately free from such.
Criss Jami
It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last day of the week, when the rest of the world is having its relaxing Saturday off and coming to gloat over you as it acquires its Sunday-reading best seller, if you work in a library you begin just at noon to wish devoutly that you'd taken up scrubbing-by-the-day, or hack-driving, or porch-climbing or- anything on earth that gave you a weekly half-holiday!
Margaret Widdemer
I am not celebrity rich, but I have a job, therefore I can help someone else in need, really, it's not that difficult.
Charmaine J.Forde
If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.
W.H. Auden
I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!
Thomas Hardy
Although any help is genuinely welcomed, it is more important to be a supportive, proactive parent than it is to be a supportive parent after academic failure and negative behaviors occur.
Tanya R. Liverman
Praise from your heart caresses my soul.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Breathe as long as the sky is alive
Munia Khan
Never rule anything out. Even the exact opposite of what you believe.
Stephanie Lennox
You can't speak to him, he said, if you speak to him, if you give any sign to him at all, he will come back; he has to stop existing for you.
Garth Greenwell
When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.
Gwyneth Lewis
Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.
Jack Kerouac
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But--on the top of that--he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the Mediterranean; and Lisa entered for a moment into a perfect peace of spirit. She became once with Nature, instead of a being eternally at war with it.
Aleister Crowley
Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.
Meghan O'Rourke
Unfortunately...I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before...I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one.
Timothy Pina
He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind.
Alexander Pope
Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
Criss Jami
I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.
Roman Payne
Ram. My lord constable, the armor that I saw in your tent to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?Con. Stars, my lord.Dau. Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.Con. And yet my sky shall not want.Dau. That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and ’twere more honor some were away.Con. Even as your horse bears your praises; who would trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.Henry V, 3.7.69-78
William Shakespeare
Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
Hermann Hesse
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
Jorge Luis Borges
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.
William Blake
Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.
Don Paterson
God bless our good and gracious King,Whose promise none relies on;Who never said a foolish thing,Nor ever did a wise one.
John Wilmot
Mind's acres are forever green: Oh, IShall keep perpetual summer here; I shallRefuse to let one startled swallow die,Or, from the copper beeches, one leaf fall.
Stanley Kunitz