Quotes by Poets - Page 288

How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, Reason none, If what parts, can so remain.
William Shakespeare
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
Aberjhani
Love is so wonderful and free to give, and it’s the one thing they can’t make you pay taxes on.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson
How sad, however, if we're givenOur youth as something to betray,And what if youth in turn is drivenTo cheat on us, each hour, each day,If our most precious aspirations,Our freshest dreams, imaginationsIn fast succession have decayed,As leaves, in putrid autumn, fade.It is too much to see before oneNothing but dinners in a row,Behind the seemly crowd to go,Regarding life as mere decorum,Having no common views to share,Nor passions that one might declare.
Alexander Pushkin
Stop the idea that a woman’s beauty is for a man’s gaze, that you have the right to touch her. This idea that she must smile and accept unwanted approaches even when she is clearly uncomfortable. Just because you call a woman beautiful does not mean you have the right to behave like her beauty belongs to you. There are women healing from scars gotten from men who have called them beautiful yet offered them pain. The beauty of a woman is hers and hers alone. There are triggers for some women, respect this and know this. The beauty of a woman is hers and hers alone.
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
I've lived my life fighting to overcome but still yet the troubles I face, may never end in this endless race.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes.
Robert Graves
With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.
Ogwo David Emenike
In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love.
Aberjhani
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.
Roman Payne
I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.
Lewis Thomas
I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.
Sylvia Plath
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting...
William Wordsworth
Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.
Santosh Kalwar
wesat theresmokingcigarettesat5in the morning.
Charles Bukowski
The inkstand is full of ink, and the paper lies white and unspotted, in the round of light thrown by a candle. Puffs of darkness sweep into the corners, and keep rolling through the room behind his chair. The air is silver and pearl, for the night is liquid with moonlight.See how the roof glitters, like ice!Over there, a slice of yellow cuts into the silver-blue, and beside it stand two geraniums, purple because the light is silver-blue, to-night.
Amy Lowell
The captains of England and Australia can barely exchange pleasantries these days without a body-language expert immediately declaiming on the angle of their handshakes.
Lawrence Booth
It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
Lang Leav
For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.
John Keats
These poems are cupsthat I pour my life into.Here, Drink!
Kamand Kojouri
I found the words at the back of a drawer,wrapped in black cloth, like three ringsslipped from a dead woman’s hand, cold,dull gold. I had held them before,years ago,then put them away, forgetting whatever it wasI could use them to say. I touched the first to my lips,like a pledge, like a kiss,and my breathwarmed them, the words I needed to utter this, small words,and few. I rubbed at them till they gleamed in my palm –I love you, I love you, I love you –as though they were new."Finding the Words
Carol Ann Duffy
All's well that ends well.
William Shakespeare
Every man is the conscious or unconscious author of his state.
Ogwo David Emenike
My favorite words in the world are t
Richelle E. Goodrich
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
W.B. Yeats
Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.
Cesare Pavese
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.
T.S Eliot
That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.
René Char
You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to.
Moveena Rasheed
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.First, to let go of life.In the end, to take a step without feet;to regard this world as invisible,and to disregard what appears to be the self.Heart, I said, what a gift it has beento enter this circle of lovers,to see beyond seeing itself,to reach and feel within the breast.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.
Pat Schneider
There’s only one person to blame for lack of self confidence
Benny Bellamacina
It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.
Charles Bukowski
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Herbert Kaufman
Woman is the light of God.
Jalaluddin Rumi
Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.
Robert Penn Warren
does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction
Tao Lin
Destiny is manifested only through action.
Suzy Kassem
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
Criss Jami
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
Juvenal
When to elect there is but one Tis Hobson's Choice take that or none.
Thomas Ward
Mishaque was a stouty blend of Irish "shrek" mixed with crazy Jafakain, his front was car dealing.
Saira Viola
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
Alexander Pope
There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.
Jeffrey McDaniel
My soul today Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.
Thomas B. Read
peace of mind and heartarriveswhen we accept what is:having beenborn into thisstrange lifewe must acceptthe wasted gamble of ourdaysand take some satisfaction inthe pleasure ofleaving it allbehind.
Charles Bukowski
But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again--after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.
Catherynne M. Valente
I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
Catherynne M. Valente
Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.
Nick Flynn
But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you don't know the question, you are not ready for the answer.
Vivian Amis
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
John Heywood
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare
That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between a sweet dream and a beautiful nightmare, hoping one day you’d return to rid me of the demons you left behind.
Robert M. Drake
It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.
Robert Priest
This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
George Gordon Byron
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.
Horace