Quotes by Poets - Page 295

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.
Horace
Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.
Rabindranath Tagore
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon between spirit and matter.
Heinrich Heine
Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.
Jalaluddin Rumi
...The happy Warrior... is the generous Spirit, who, when brought among the tasks of real life, hath wrought upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: whose high endeavors are an inward light that makes the path before him always bright.
William Wordsworth
Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
Margaret Atwood
Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy
Tupac Shakur
I don't feel at home where I am,or where I spend time; only where,beyond counting, there's freedom and calm,that is, waves, that is, space where, when there,you consist of pure freedom, which, seen,turns that Gorgon, the crowd, to stone,to pebbles and sand . . . where life's mean-ing lies buried, that never let onecome within cannon shot yet.From cloud-covered wells untoldpour color and light, a feteof cupids and Ledas in gold.That is, silk and honey and sheen.That is, boon and quiver and call.That is, all that lives to be free,needing no words at all.
Regina Derieva
There are few things better than losing yourself in a book. And if you're lucky enough to have that adventure continue in a series, it's like chocolate ganache on the icing on the cake.
Richelle E. Goodrich
We all have the ability to make someone's life better with our love.
Kamand Kojouri
I won't be stuck in traffic 'til I see how rugged my path isAnd right now I'm loving how fast my troubles are fastingNo they don't bother me oh realizing I'm psychopathicA wild beast, baby I'm gladly running afterYes a thing called peace outlasting any madnessThe devil fears me oh he's feelingLike a fragment of a fractionNo he won't come near me'Cause his hat trick's out of practice
Criss Jami
No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.
Hesiod
Why love what you will lose?There is nothing else to love.
Louise Glück
The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself? The sky is NOT the limit. Beyond the universe is.
Suzy Kassem
Destiny reveals itself only when there is truth and action.
Suzy Kassem
There are high places that don’t invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take…I’m giddy with thinking where thinking can’t stick.No Names
Kay Ryan
For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands.
Hermann Hesse
You bear a sword and shield, remind meof her labor, her stoning gaze. What beastwill your blade free next? What call will you loosefrom another woman's throat?
Donika Kelly
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.
Raymond Carver
When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully, treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth.  For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly.
Richelle E. Goodrich
But in the end of our love story,We are on the same page.
Alon Calinao Dy
It was a night of early spring,The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;Around us shadows and the windListened for what was never spoken.Though half a score of years are gone,Spring comes as sharply now as then—But if we had it all to doIt would be done the same again.It was a spring that never came;But we have lived enough to knowThat what we never have, remains;It is the things we have that go.
Sara Teasdale
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
Dejan Stojanovic
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.
Charles Bukowski
Whatever the clouds plan to do I always trust in the sun which never fails to come out
Munia Khan
How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Oh dear sunday, I want to sleep in your arms and have fun day.
Santosh Kalwar
Happiness is feeling confident that the god of this universe is pleased with the things you say and do.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
Catherynne M. Valente
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
Criss Jami
When the wildish woman has an idea, the friend or lover will never say, "Well, I don't know . . . sounds really dumb [grandiose, undoable, expensive, etc.] to me." A right friend will never say that. They might say instead . . . "I don't know if I understand. Tell me how you see it. Tell me how it will work.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,committed or endured or suspected; there are worse thingsthan not being able to sleep for thinking about them.It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking inand stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
Fleur Adcock
Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow- No night but hath its morn.
J. C. F. von Schiller
We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience.
Rainer Maria Rilke
God's dream is interwoven into reality by humans.
Santosh Kalwar
Truth, like diamond, has many facets.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
For life, too, is only an instant,Only the dissolving of ourselvesIn the selves of all othersAs if bestowing a gift –
Boris Pasternak
Yes, he is here in thisopen field, in sunlight, amongthe few young trees set outto modify the bare facts--he's here, but onlybecause we are here.When we go, he goes with usto be your hands that neverdo violence, your eyesthat wonder, your livesthat daily praise lifeby living it, by laughter.He is never alone here,never cold in the field of graves.
Denise Levertov
Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.
Suzy Kassem
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
Herman Melville
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
Cesare Pavese
In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.
Marlene Van Niekerk
Books are carnival rides for your imagination.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Always distance yourself from gossip, because it is the worst form of self-disruption.
Gift Gugu Mona
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
N. Scott Momaday
Who hesitate and falter life away and lose tomorrow the ground won today.
Matthew Arnold
Take a newspaper.Take some scissors.Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem.Cut out the article.Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag.Shake gently.Next take out each cutting one after the other.Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.The poem will resemble you.And there you are -- an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.
Tristan Tzara
Great leaders do not fear challenges, because challenges don't break leaders but sharpens them.
Gift Gugu Mona
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.
Blaise Cendrars
Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death?
Titus Lucretius Carus
In Damascus:poems become diaphanousThey’re neither sensualnor intellectualthey are what echo saysto echo . . .
Mahmoud Darwish
At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is love, even if it is illicit; like light remains light even in the darkness.
Munia Khan
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
You know, I know I should be just as panicky as you about the filthy work - one wants to do nothing in the evenings, certainly not spread rotten books around & dredge for a 'line'. It must be like still being a student, with an essay to do after a week's drinking, only you haven't had the drinking. Quite clearly, to me, you aren't a voluntary worker, from the will: you do it by intuitive flashes, more like an act of creation, & when the flashes don't come, as of course they don't, especially when the excess energy of undergraduate days is gone, then it is a hideous unnatural effort.
Philip Larkin
I used to look up at night and dream of the solar system. I know, I know—who didn't? But your own dreams seem so special, so terribly yours, until you grow up and figure out they're just like everyone else's. How perfect and beautiful and silent and dead each planet hung in my heart! All nine names, written in squiggly, shaky handwriting, glowing inside me.
Catherynne M. Valente
The purpose of life is life.
Dejan Stojanovic