Quotes by Poets - Page 31

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Erica Jong
Maybe my dissertation really had been as brilliant as he claimed, the truth was I remember almost nothing about it; the intellectual leaps I made when I was young were a distant memory to me, and now I was surrounded by a kind of aura, when really my only goal in life was to do a little reading and get in bed at four in the afternoon with a carton of cigarettes and a bottle; and yet, at the same time, I had to admit, I was going to die if I kept that up – I was going to die fast, unhappy and alone. And did I really want to die fast, unhappy and alone? In the end, only kind of.
Michel Houellebecq
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell
If a friend to me is friend to all then a friend to all is not a friend to me.
Santosh Kalwar
Patience and persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience.
Ogwo David Emenike
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen
A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.
Suzy Kassem
Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.
Criss Jami
There is a charm in Solitude that cheersA feeling that the world knows nothing ofA green delight the wounded mind endearsAfter the hustling world is broken off
John Clare
What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?
Kathy Acker
Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the way to healing. Stories become the foundation of health, peacebuilding and vision. Learning to listen, to recognize, to understand and attend the teachings and revelations of the Stories we have been given to live guides us toward the 5th world. Our individual stories, when carefully attended, can reveal each person’s particular path of healing and transformation. Even illness is a story that can lead us to our own and to community healing. Learning to recognize the Story that we or another is living can be a worthy life work.
Deena Metzger
The More Loving OneLooking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast.How should we like it were stars to burnWith a passion for us, we could not return?If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.Admirer as I think I amOf stars that do not give a damn,I cannot, now I see them, sayI missed one terribly all day.Were all stars to disappear or die,I should learn to look at an empty skyAnd feel its total dark sublime,Though this might take me a little time.
W.H. Auden
My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.t 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.t 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?t 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.
T.S Eliot
The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it.
Sylvia Plath
Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic.
Barbara Kingsolver
When Sartre says man has been thrown into the world, he is alone, there is no God, we are responsible for what we are, what we do, I say yes!"The affirmative echoed around the woods. The dog pricked up his ears. This man has no one to talk to, thought Inni."But when he then asks me to be responsible for the world as well, for others, I say no! No. Why should I be? 'When man chooses himself, he chooses all men.' Why? I have not asked for anything. I have nothing to do with the vermin I see around me. I live out my time because I have to, that is all.
Cees Nooteboom
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
George Santayana
It is only normal that people count losses with their minds, and ignore to count blessings with the graciousness of their hearts.
Suzy Kassem
Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.
Criss Jami
War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
Walt Whitman
We real cool. WeLeft school. WeLurk late. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. WeDie soon.
Gwendolyn Brooks
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.
Michaelangelo
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.
Kurt Schwitters
Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.
Felicia D. Hemans
I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.
Shah Asad Rizvi
V.S. Pritchett's definition of a short story is 'something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.' Notice the 'glimpse' part of this. First the glimpse. Then the glimpse gives life, turned into something that illuminates the moment and may, if we're lucky -- that word again -- have even further ranging consequences and meaning. The short story writer's task is to invest the glimpse with all that is in his power. He'll bring his intelligence and literary skill to bear (his talent), his sense of proportion and sense of the fitness of things: of how things out there really are and how he sees those things -- like no one else sees them. And this is done through the use of clear and specific language, language used so as to bring to life the details that will light up the story for the reader. For the details to be concrete and convey meaning, the language must be accurate and precisely given. The words can be so precise they may even sound flat, but they can still carry; if used right they can hit all the notes.
Raymond Carver
Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers!
Avijeet Das
And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own...
Rainer Maria Rilke
Either I love someone completely, totally and madly or not at all!
Avijeet Das
The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief.
Alison Croggon
Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing but thy victim's perception of thee, souls soar at thy artful hand! I have fallen in love with thy illusions, Happiness. Thou hast made me a part of them, and I am left delirious.
Richelle E. Goodrich
He who has lived and thought can neverHelp in his soul despising men,He who has felt will be foreverHaunted by days he can’t regain.For him there are no more enchantments,Him does the serpent of remembrance,Him does repentance always gnaw.All this will frequently affordA great delight to conversations.
Alexander Pushkin
Enough !! of the lion ruling the wild territory, time to vote the panther gentlemen.
Neymat Khan
Here cometh April again and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
Charles Lamb
And we will keep searching for our footsteps in the sands of time...
Avijeet Das
Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith
Love, is a Bloody Razor BladeLove came like fire from aboveand disappeared like a wet dream,underneath a leaky kitchen sinkFor weeks it went drip, drip, drip…until it could be, eventually fixedIt took a long time to depreciateall the things I never had to sayBut there are only so many things that make sense at the endThe rest is merely X-Acto knife love, andLove, is a bloody razor blade
Phil Volatile
Wee sleekit cow'rin timrous beastie 0 what a panic's in thy breastie! Wi' bickering brattle!
Robert Burns
I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, insect, fish didn't have a chance. The fix was in. I didn't know what to do about it. I got depressed. You know, I see a boy at the supermarket, he's packing my groceries, then I see him sticking himself into his own grave along with the toilet paper, the beer and the chicken breasts.
Charles Bukowski
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Jean Cocteau
The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. Civilization was not in the natural order but was some wort of willed invention held taut like a fabric or a sail against the chaos of the winds. And why we had invented it, or how we knew to invent it, was beyond him.Newmann had seen some truth that was completely out of his power to put into words. But he had come away knowing that even though the world of civilization was made of straw and lantern slides, he must live in it as if it were solid. Even when the heat of the lantern itself burnt away the illusions and a black hole appeared in the middle of the slide.
Paulette Jiles
Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies.
Criss Jami
Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.
Charles Martin
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
Denis Johnson
To be a rainbow in someone’s cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.
Richelle E. Goodrich
It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.
Wilbur D. Nesbit
Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers.
Kahlil Gibran
Always be in command of your music. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.
Suzy Kassem
In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the defini
Richelle E. Goodrich
How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized
Michael Ondaatje
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S Eliot
If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
John Clellon Holmes
Beware how you take away hope from another human being
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
Robin Flower
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,Yet Grace must still look so.
William Shakespeare