Quotes by Poets - Page 180

and tonight we held each other, one last time,like a dance to aslow songon an empty floor, underneath a singledisco ballin front of no oneat all
Phil Volatile
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
Martial
It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)
Rainer Maria Rilke
If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated.
Denise Riley
He who despises himself, nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. (Nietz
W.H. Auden
SONG OF DAWNI saw the sun rise by accident.It was a horrible sight.Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refugein a moist pillow, and lay there, alone,at the dawn of another day,that brought me closer to another death,pondering the vanity of my solitude,the vanity of procrastination,and the tiresome inevitability of waking upagain the same person.It might still be possible to change,but obstinately I remain the same,hoping that others might take solacein my consistency.But perhaps they take no solace in it,perhaps they too find it tedious.
John Tottenham
You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you there of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right But where's the bloody horse?
Roy Campbell
The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.
Cesare Pavese
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature.
William Shakespeare
I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.
Ben Okri
All you need is a vision and everything else will fall in place. Trust me
Charmaine J.Forde
I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.
Alberto Caeiro
Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and search for it.
Avijeet Das
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing after all.
Eugene Field
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
Charles Bukowski
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
Art is difficult transient is her reward.
Friedrich von Schiller
Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit,nor in the air, nor in our lives,nor on these terraces of billowing smoke.The genuine pain that keeps everything awakeis a tiny, infinite burnon the innocent eyes of other systems.
Federico García Lorca
I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.
Kelli Russell Agodon
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.
Hermann Hesse
If the world is divided between Fascism and Communism, obviously Fascism must lose since it is the last, desperate refuge of the bourgeoisie
Czesław Miłosz
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you
Charles Bukowski
He who reflects too much will achieve little.
J. C. F. von Schiller
To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Beauty may catch the eye, but a jolly laugh will lasso the heart.
Richelle E. Goodrich
We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison
Thou art a votary to fond desire
William Shakespeare
Do not risk your life for someone who doesn't care about you.
Gugu Mona
There is no greater glory than love nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
Lope de Vega
It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted like ice the moment someone was kind enough to show they cared about me, and in a way that suited me.
Raymond Radiguet
Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.
Ted Hughes
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks glasses! of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster— tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone?
Herman Melville
No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.Comforter, where, where is your comforting?Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing —Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'.O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fallFrightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheapMay who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our smallDurance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: allLife death does end and each day dies with sleep.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
If grief could burn outLike a sunken coal,The heart would rest quiet, The unrent soulBe still as a veil; But I have watched all nightThe fire grow silent, The grey ash soft:And I stir the stubborn flintThe flames have left, And grief stirs, and the deftHeart lies impotent.
Philip Larkin
the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same
John J. Geddes
The unfolding of a Spermatic Aura like a sheet in the Universe. That we are ~
Grigoris Deoudis
Science is for those who learn poetry for those who know.
Joseph Roux
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
John Ciardi
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
Anne Carson
they ask for water we give them seathey ask for bread we give them seathey ask for life we give them only the sea
M. NourbeSe Philip
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
Criss Jami
But look after yourself - there will be great dangers on the way. Remember, the right road is never the easy road.
Michael Morpurgo
Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Little girls grow up thinking that knights in shining armor actually exist.  But they don't.  And if those valiant heroes ever did bless this world with their chivalrous deeds, I imagine, just like Christ's apostles, they were destroyed by envy on the battlefront.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.
Pablo Neruda
I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.
Richelle E. Goodrich
We will talk of this again, when the grass has first withered on her grave. Then you'll hear him spouting about "the child too early torn from her father's heart;" then you'll see him steep himself in a syrup of sentiment and self-admiration and self-pity. Just you wait!
Henrik Ibsen
Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are
Benny Bellamacina
Power, of course. The primitive fear of being controlled. It does not matter whether it is an invasion from outer space or power wielded from a subterranean command post: some alien force is about to take control on us, to dominate - and, if necessary in the process, to terminate our existence. We never stop to think - or, at best, a secondary consideration is whether such a force might be for the good, that humanity might indeed be improved by such a takeover. Volition, to which we desperately cling, is the very definition of our mature completion as social beings.
Wole Soyinka
I can only be me.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Superiority to fate is difficult to gain 'tis not conferred of any but possible to earn.
Emily Dickinson
If the Christian life seems boring,I suggest you may be DOING IT WRONG!
Edmund Lloyd Fletcher
What never happened will never change."(from "Oh, Leonardo")
Adele Kenny
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,Student of our sweet English tongue,Read out my words at night, alone:I was a poet, I was young.Since I can never see your face,And never shake you by the hand,I send my soul through time and spaceTo greet you. You will understand.
James Elroy Flecker
Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden.. forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.
Hermann Hesse
My debt to you Beloved Is one I cannot pay In any coin of any realm On any reckoning day.
Jessie Rittenhouse
Christmas Eve, I give him packages which I open for him, since the bows and paper represent more labor than he could manage: music videos by the Nashville singers he thinks particularly sexy, fleece-lined slippers decorated with images of bacon and eggs, and a book about breeds of dogs. He says he wishes he had something for me to open, but I don’t want anything except to have him here. There’s nothing more he could give me than his life, right now, his being with me.
Mark Doty
Had laws not been we never had been blam'd For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
William Davenant