Quotes by Poets - Page 289

It's good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it's going
Benny Bellamacina
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
William Cowper
The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
Anne Sexton
Ends Meet1Could betime is practice,balance,the actionexecuted in the mindbefore and after.Where does mind end?2We mark a breakwith what has come before,come through the door,down the
Rae Armantrout
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
Aberjhani
for my grief's so greatThat no supporter but the huge firm earthCan hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.(Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)
William Shakespeare
Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.
Jorge Luis Borges
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
The Offing - And if the sky itself, no matter its hue, were to fracture... What then? Would I then know freedom's name?In my wake lies the shore—a past where I had been happy—refusing to yield to the tide. Before me, upon the horizon, is the sun... hesitant... inert... A new day cannot rise if its ancestor does not fall. Am I but a pawn in this game? I cannot command the sun to set, nor will the moon to take its place and wash the shore away. That power belongs to kings.To drown in the offing. Such sovereign beauty. Such exquisite pain.
RJ Arkhipov
Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.
Suzy Kassem
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
W.H. Auden
Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.
Pablo Neruda
And he began, "What chance or destinyhas brought you here before your final day?And who is he who leads your pilgrimage?""Up there in life beneath the quiet starsI lost my way," I answered, "in a valley,before I'd reached the fullness of my age.I turned my shoulders on it yesterday:this soul appeared as I was falling back,and by the road through Hell he leads me home.""Follow your star and you will never fail to find your glorious port," he said to me
Dante Alighieri
Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.
Kirby Wright
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Charles Bukowski
Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather a child to its mother.
Sappho
Gifts are hooks.
Martial
The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.
Suzy Kassem
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
Gone are the summer daysand my mind along with them.No longer will I indulgein hopes of getting you back.It is hope that makes these chains heavierand autumnal nights longer.I will merely serve as a memory to you:the lover that recited love poems.I must go nowand I urge you not to look back.
Kamand Kojouri
What we learn in childhood is carved in stone. What we learn as adults is carved in ice.
David Kherdian
Neither here, nor there. But everywhere.
Lang Leav
Each time, at the end of the day, we know it well: If we do not have love we would be nothing.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Lily looks back down at the necklace in her hand that Kavita had given her. "It must have cost a fortune.""It did." He confirms. "Though not nearly as much as you're worth."Lily looks up at him. "Don't say that. You hurt me everytime you speak.
Carroll Bryant
I never learn anything from listening to myself.
Barbara Kingsolver
As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.
Dante Alighieri
All our wisdom is stored in the trees.
Santosh Kalwar
Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling.
Richelle E. Goodrich
...animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.
Barbara Kingsolver
The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.
Aberjhani
I wish in the city of your heartyou would let me be the streetwhere you walk when you are mostyourself. I imagine the houses:It has been raining, but the rainis done and the children kept homehave begun opening their doors.
Robley Wilson
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time.
William Shakespeare
Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened
D.H. Lawrence
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind.
Richelle E. Goodrich
one thing I don’t needis any more apologiesi got sorry greetin me at my front dooryou can keep yrsi don’t know what to do wit emthey don’t open doorsor bring the sun backthey don’t make me happyor get a mornin paperdidn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash carscuz a sorry.
Ntozake Shange
Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted.
Richelle E. Goodrich
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead where there were no paths.
Dorothy Parker
Because even if you spend your life chasing the immaterial, listening to the most exquisite classical music and getting drunk off of stunning vistas of mountains and waterfalls, all of it isn't worth a dime if you aren’t sharing it with someone. Everything amounts to that. True, we must experience most things in solitude to grow, create, destroy and grow again, but our pleasure and joy reaches a threshold in isolation. It is the worst thing to become an island. One must become the whole world.
Kamand Kojouri
Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.
Suzy Kassem
I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed sees dignity and peace as emerging more from that acceptance than from any method of transcending the human condition.
Thomas Moore
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
E.E. Cummings
Of all the wonders that I have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.(Act II, Scene 2)
William Shakespeare
... He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
Robinson Jeffers
I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?
Elizabeth Alexander
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
George Meredith
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.
Anthony Liccione
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
Maya Angelou
A selfie is nothing more than just an external reflection of yourself
Munia Khan
Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there
Stanley Victor Paskavich
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran
i have had my ups and downsbut wotthehell wotthehellyesterday sceptres and crownsfried oysters and velvet gownsand today i herd with bumsbut wotthehell wotthehelli wake the world from sleepas i caper and sing and leapwhen i sing my wild free tunewotthehell wotthehellunder the blear eyed mooni am pelted with cast off shoonbut wotthehell wotthehell
Don Marquis
He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.
Michael Ondaatje
Lips that taste of tears they say are the best for kissing.
Dorothy Parker
In the essence of truth lies deceit.
Dejan Stojanovic
Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.
Laurence Overmire
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
Jack Kerouac
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,downward, in the soaked guts of the earth,absorbing and thinking, eating each day.
Pablo Neruda