Quotes by Poets - Page 317

Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.
Robert Browning
Heroes in fact die with one's youth. They are pinned like butterflies to the setting board of early memories—the time when skies were always blue, the sun shone and the air was filled with the sounds and scents of grass being cut. I find myself still as desperate to read the Sussex score in the stop-press as ever I was; but I no longer worship heroes, beings for whom the ordinary scales of human values are inadequate. One learns that as one grows up, so do the gods grow down. It is in many ways a pity: for one had thought that heroes had no problems of their own. Now one knows different!
Alan Ross
I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.
Walt Whitman
All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.
Kevin Powers
É muito mais lisonjeiro,(...)lutar-se por alguma coisa bela e ideal e saber ao mesmo tempo que não se conseguirá alcançá-la. Os ideais serão algo que se possa alcançar? Viveremos para cabar com a morte? Não, viveremos para temê-la e também para amá-la, e precisamente por causa da morte é que nossa vida vez por outra resplandece tão radiosa num belo instante.
Hermann Hesse
If life throws you a few bad notes, don't let them interrupt your song.
Suzy Kassem
Our state cannot be severed, we are one,One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
John Milton
Gavin stood within the trees, observing her from the shadows. He watched the basket rise to her nose as she closed her eyes to sniff at its contents. A smile told him it smelled delicious, but she didn’t open the container to pinch off a sample. Instead, the basket lowered to swing at her side as it had previously done.tAll at once the air was filled with soft singing--a sweet, merry tune comprised of ludicrous lyrics. It was impossible not to grin at the
Richelle E. Goodrich
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
Andrea Gibson
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
Aberjhani
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
Audre Lorde
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
Aberjhani
People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights.
Anthony Liccione
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And now we need something new, And this new thing is Eternal Life
Boris Pasternak
I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.
Jonah Winter
All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.
Sylvia Plath
When picking a leader, choose a peacemaker. One who unites, not divides. A cultured leader who supports the arts and true freedom of speech, not censorship.
Suzy Kassem
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Nicolas Boileau
There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
Helen Hunt Jackson
As Eternity has reckonedThere's a lifetime in a second
Piet Hein
Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.
Catherynne M. Valente
I don't agree with you in the least," said Temple— "about marriage, I mean. A man ought to want to get married—""To anybody? Without its being anybody in particular?""Yes," said Temple stoutly. "If he gets to thirty without wanting to marry any one in particular, he ought to look about till he finds some one he does want. It's the right and proper thing to marry and have kiddies.
E Nesbit
You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.
Jalaluddin Rumi
I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you-the difference
Rupi Kaur
Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.
Richelle E. Goodrich
That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
Frank O'Hara
...Who could refrain,tThat had a heart to love, and in that hearttCourage to make love known?
William Shakespeare
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth
Poor the man who has earned millions and millions of rupees but has never tasted the meaning of true love.
Avijeet Das
I believe that our sole responsibility is to reach out, uplift one another and lighten one another's burdens. If we are not doing this, then we are yet to start living. What a man owes his fellow is a transforming encounter.
Ogwo David Emenike
Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
Boris Pasternak
We are made wholeBy books, as by great spaces and the stars
Mary Carolyn Davies
Civic duty? Perhaps it would be a little naive to try to coerce me into voting. I assure you my basic standards of healthy living are very different from yours, which is the reason I do not vote. You should note that, as nonsensical a scenario, if forced to choose I would most definitely rather live in a failing, Christ-honoring, God-fearing nation than a flourishing one that mocks said Creator. Beware of my personal ambitions.
Criss Jami
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker
I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.
Sylvia Plath
You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.
Dorothy Parker
The Judgement is not a question, it's a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust.
Anthony Liccione
Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.
Marie de France
You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.
Warsan Shire
Nothing brings to life again a forgotten memory like a fragrance.
Christopher Poindexter
No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?
Marge Piercy
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
What can we expect from an empty shell Where many hearts of pearl once beat to dwell Waves fail to break hard layer's bond of loveWailing shore sends memoir to the sky above
Munia Khan
A true love is never defeated.Even when in ashes,it whirls and finds solace with air
sandeep kumar mishra
In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.
Vivian Amis
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good
Ezra Pound
Happy the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.
Sorin Cerin
Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.
Frank O'Hara
Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Lord Byron
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
Aberjhani
Out of the starless night that covers me, (O tribulation of the wind that rolls!) Black as the cloud of some tremendous spell, The susurration of the sighing sea Sounds like the sobbing whisper of two souls That tremble in a passion of farewell.To the desires that trebled life in me, (O melancholy of the wind that rolls!) The dreams that seemed the future to foretell, The hopes that mounted herward like the sea, To all the sweet things sent on happy souls, I cannot choose but bid a mute farewell.And to the girl who was so much to me (O lamentation of this wind that rolls!) Since I may not the life of her compel, Out of the night, beside the sounding sea, Full of the love that might have blent our souls, A sad, a last, a long, supreme farewell.
William Ernest Henley
Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
Allen Ginsberg
I’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That’s me.A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Your heart plays a song like a broken music box, but nothing ever sounded quite so beautiful to me. Together, in the dance of wounded-wing swans we’ll rise above the ruins, melting into the golden light.
John Mark Green
We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W.H. Auden