Quotes by Poets - Page 108

From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.
Maxwell Anderson
Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once traversed them. These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bars, their sole owner is you. They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume. You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you. You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair. The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak. Nothing belongs to itself anymore. You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours. He sits with us in darkness now to plot how to make you ours.” K.K.
Kamand Kojouri
It is not long before those who are obedient in service obtain command.
Saadi
I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
I am a part of all that I have met.
Alfred Tennyson
The struggle for power conducted along logical lines is much more likely to occur in smoke-filled rooms than at the polls. The party system is a grid, a filter, a meat chopper, through which issues are processed for the consuming public. The Civil War confirmed our preference for this arrangement. We like the fog of politics, with the occasional drama of the flash of a lightning bolt that, happily, is usually nothing more than a near miss.
Robert Penn Warren
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
Aberjhani
Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
Ô, the wine of a womanfrom heaven is sent, more perfect than allthat a man can invent.When she came to my bed and begged me with sighsnot to tempt her towards passion nor actions unwise, tI told her I’d spare her and kissed her closed eyes, then unbraided her body of its clothing disguise.While our bodies were nude bathed in candlelight fineI devoured her mouth, tender lips divine;and I drank through her thighs her feminine wine.Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.
Roman Payne
A great ship asks deep water.
George Herbert
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Johann von Goethe
It is very difficult to win. It's not in my script.
Louise Glück
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
William Shakespeare
Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.
Dorianne Laux
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.
Margaret Atwood
My favorite, how did you put it now? Landscapes, animals, plants? Favorite what? Books, music, architecture, painting? I don't have any favorite animals, no favorite mosquitoes, favorite beetles, favorite worms, even with the best will in the world I cannot tell you which birds or fish or predators I prefer, it would also be difficult for me to have to choose much more generally.
Ingeborg Bachmann
Suit the action to the word, theWord to the action.
William Shakespeare
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.
Ogden Nash
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare
Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
for meobedience to another is the decay of self.for though every being is similareach being is differentand to herd our differencesunder one lawdegrades each self.
Charles Bukowski
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Stéphane Mallarmé
Learn, Teach, Love, Experience and Grow. That's what I know about this life we live.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.
Santosh Kalwar
There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.
Richelle E. Goodrich
I am alive because you want me to.
Santosh Kalwar
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
William Cowper
You were correct, for all men have within them both that which is dark and that which is light. A man is a thing of many divisions, not a pure, clear flame such as you once were. His intellect often wars with his emotions, his will with his desires . . . his ideals are at odds with his environment, and if he follows them, he knows keenly the loss of that which was old, but if he does not follow them, he feels the pain of having forsaken a new and noble dream. Whatever he does represents both a gain and a loss, an arrival and a departure. Always he mourns that which is gone and fears some part of that which is new. Reason opposes tradition. Emotions oppose the restrictions his fellow men lay upon him. Always, from the friction of these things, there arises the thing you called the curse of man and mocked; guilt!
Roger Zelazny
August is dust here. Droughtstuns the road,but juice gathers in the berries.
Robert Hass
This choreography of ruin, the world breakinglike glass under a microscope,the way it doesn’t crack all at once,but spreads out from the damaged cavities.Still for a moment it all recedes.The backyard potatoes swell quietlyburied beneath their canopy of leaves.The wind rubs its hands through the trees.
Ellen Bass
The still watersWrap my lips,Eyes, nose and ears,A clearCellophane I cannot crack.
Sylvia Plath
Anyone out without the excuse of a dog should be handcuffed and searched for loneliness.
Stephen Dunn
Most are unaware of their tremendous worth and boundless potential, despite possessing both.
Richelle E. Goodrich
If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.
Criss Jami
Try to forgive by trying to understand how it would feel to be in the other’s shoes. If someone hurts you – ask them - “What hurts you so much that you would do this?” Listen to the answer and try to understand what is valid for them. They may have been fighting for your attention, but no one thinks of themselves as attackers, only defenders! So don’t judge their ways, only set them free by giving them a chance to speak. You may both learn a lot from your kindness and courage in asking for the truth. But even if nothing changes, release it, remember that you both have a right to be who you choose to be. When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, so ask if you seek to understand, or simply let them be!
Jay Woodman
from the prose poem "The Universe Thrums on regardless" in my book SPAN.We are almost nothing in the night. Reduced to warm blobs and the sound of breathing. There is comfort in that.
Jay Woodman
What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face could be born.
Roman Payne
In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.
Yosa Buson
How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy,But droop his tender wing,And forget his youthful spring?
William Blake
Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see or would see me if they noticed my presence there? It is. And once I've perceived what they would feel about me if they knew me, it is as if they were feeling and expressing it at that very moment. It is a torture to me to live with other people. Then there are those who live inside me. Even when removed from life, I'm forced to live with them. Alone, I am hemmed in by multitudes. I have nowhere to flee to, unless I were to flee myself.
Fernando Pessoa
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work
Charles Bukowski
Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
God forgive me for what I've done. God forgive me for what I will do, and forgive me for what I can't do because my religion won't let me.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
If you believe it, it is.
Adele Kenny
It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver
Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Love is the energy of life.
Robert Browning
That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
The only one that believes in you, is you. Don't lean on how others see you to find belief in yourself.
Anthony Liccione
Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.
John Milton
A moment of happiness,you and I sitting on the verandah,apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.We feel the flowing water of life here,you and I, with the garden's beautyand the birds singing.The stars will be watching us,and we will show themwhat it is to be a thin crescent moon.You and I unselfed, will be together,indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugaras we laugh together, you and I.In one form upon this earth,and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.
Roman Payne
Learn to give for free because this is the best way to serve humanity.
Neymat Khan
This wolf-woman Self must have freedom to move, to speak, to be angry, and to create.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.
Maya Angelou
I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.
Joshua Kryah
Patience is to wait for the ice to melt instead of breaking it.
Munia Khan