Quotes by Poets - Page 118

Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.
Aberjhani
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
George Santayana
In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.
Elizabeth Alexander
I was tired of her getting away with being so young.
Margaret Atwood
If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.
Dejan Stojanovic
Ah, youth!It was a beautiful night...The moon was out of orbit.The stars were awry.But everything else was exactlyas it should have been.
Roman Payne
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat.Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay.To-morrow 's falser than the former day;Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blestWith some new joys, cuts off what we possest.Strange cozenage! none would live past years again,Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;And from the dregs of life think to receiveWhat the first sprightly running could not give.
John Dryden
What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.
Richelle E. Goodrich
For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.
Kamand Kojouri
Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.
William Shakespeare
The cause of my profound sense of incompatibility with others is, I believe, that most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts.For the ordinary man, to feel is to live, and to think is to know how to live. For me, to think is to live, and to feel is merely food for thought.
Fernando Pessoa
What a thing it is to have music that plays your terrible thoughts. I imagined that one piece could drive more delicate women than myself to insanity.
Jackie Kay
When you are truly stunning, gorgeous and beautiful, you won’t have to prove that to anyone visually.
Alexandra Elle
The storm before the calm.
Cameron Conaway
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
I need to hold on to the faded love ‘cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers
Munia Khan
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Rae Armantrout
Compared to bipolar's magic, reality seems a raw deal. It's not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it's the slow dawning pain that comes with sanity - the realization of illnesss, the humiliating scenes, the blown money and friendships and confidence. Depression seems almost inevitable. The pendulum swings back from transcendence in shards, a bloody, dangerous mess. Crazy high is better than crazy low. So we gamble, dump the pills, and stick it to the control freaks and doctors. They don't understand, we say. They just don't get it. They'll never be artists.
David Lovelace
Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning
Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy,The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.
Philip Larkin
While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation, I do mean she must set for herself something in life that she is willing to reach for and therefore take risks for.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.
Barbara Kingsolver
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
William Shakespeare
you will not be master of my body & my property
Geoffrey Chaucer
Absolute equals nothingness.
Dejan Stojanovic
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
Antonio Porchia
I broke your heart.Now barefoot I treadon shards.
Vera Pavlova
To write good poems is the secret of brevity.
Dejan Stojanovic
Everything stayed hidden […] it was all secret – known by anyone who cared to know, but unacknowledged, like a priest’s feverish brightness around adolescent boys, or the beatings Mrs Wilson endured on those Saturdays when Dumfermline lost at home(p. 83-84)
John Burnside
Husband and wife come to look alike at last.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?
Stanley Victor Paskavich
If you desire healing,let yourself fall illlet yourself fall ill.
Jalaluddin Rumi
As it Were tissue of silver I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey, And go mistily radiant, clad Like the moon.
Adelaide Crapsey
Joy is the will which labours which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
The stars are forth, the moon above the topsOf the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful!I linger yet with Nature, for the nightHath been to me a more familiar faceThan that of man; and in her starry shadeOf dim and solitary loveliness,I learn'd the language of another world.
George Gordon Byron
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
Leonard Cohen
Then of thy beauty do I question make,That thou among the wastes of time must go,Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,And die as fast as they see others grow.
William Shakespeare
Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.
Kahlil Gibran
It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
Edgar Allan Poe
The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
Hermann Hesse
Thou hast added insult to injury.
Phaedrus
It's nice to see how the suffering does away in time. It always does
Kathrin Schmidt
When love is not madness it is not love.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .
Lucia Perillo
The SolitaryAs one who has sailed across an unknown sea,among this rooted folk I am alone;the full days on their tables are their own,to me the distant is reality.A new world reaches to my very eyes,a place perhaps unpeopled as the moon;their slightest feelings they must analyze,and all their words have got the common tune.The things I brought with me from far away,compared with theirs, look strangely not the same:in their great country they were living things,but here they hold their breath, as if for shame.
Rainer Maria Rilke
ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
William Shakespeare
Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to too many half-lettered persons.
Rémy de Gourmont
This was the most unkindest cut of all For when the noble Caesar saw him stab Ingratitude more strong than traitor's arm Quite vanquish'd him then burst his mighty heart.
William Shakespeare
Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way, you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth. If it hasn't happened to you yet, consider yourself lucky. When it does, when one day you look around and nothing is recognizable, when you find yourself alone in a dark wood having lost the way, you may find it easier to blame it on someone else -- an errant lover, a missing father, a bad childhood -- or it may be easier to blame the map you were given -- folded too many times, out-of-date, tiny print -- but mostly, if you are honest, you will only be able to blame yourself.One day I'll tell my daughter a story about a dark time, the dark days before she was born, and how her coming was a ray of light. We got lost for a while, the story will begin, but then we found our way.
Nick Flynn
Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.
Mark Doty
And it seems people should not build houses anymoreit seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floorsunder electric lightswithout shades;it seems there is a lot to forgetand a lot not to doand in drugstores, markets, bars,the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at nightand look through this house and the house does not want to be built
Charles Bukowski
Good but not religious-good.
Thomas Hardy
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
Theodore Roethke
Life is a fierce duel with emotions and a slow war with psychology.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him.
C.J. Langenhoven
Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.
Andrei Codrescu
Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.
Anthony Liccione
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
George Gordon Byron
But this time, so far as I can tell, my mother has not made her husband her desire incarnate, though she does love him very much. And for his part, so far as I can tell, he doesn’t try to talk her out of her self-deprecation, nor does he abet it. He simply loves her. I am learning from him.
Maggie Nelson
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn’t fit the other. I didn’t care
Charles Bukowski