Quotes by Poets - Page 323

Never stop dreaming, wake up and chase your dreams.
Gift Gugu Mona
Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
Hermann Hesse
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
D.H. Lawrence
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you willrealize that nowhere seems like home anymore.
Shinji Moon
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
Kahlil Gibran
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home.
Hermann Hesse
When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.
Suzy Kassem
In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often women are represented as the perpetrators of violence, most of all when we are simply fighting in self-defense or for our children, or when we collectively attempt to change the institutions that are making war on us and our children.
Adrienne Rich
That orbed maiden with white fire laden Whom mortals call the moon.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.
Sherman Alexie
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
CHORUS:You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him!Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.
Sophocles
If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.
Catherine Fisher
The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.
Adrienne Rich
…it was not whim or wildness which made me go, but a sudden clear realization that tho you were the first man of importance to me, you could not be the last. — Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1963 (age 21)
Jeanette Lynes
I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.
W.B. Yeats
You were you,and I was I;we were twobefore our time.I was yoursbefore I knew,and you have always been mine too.
Lang Leav
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
Anne Carson
There had always been a little wiggle room in state abortion laws, because doctors were still permitted to perform them for “therapeutic” reasons—to save a woman’s life, for example.7 But what did that mean, exactly? An amicus curiae brief in Roe from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and several other medical groups observed that “a woman suffering from heart disease, diabetes or cancer whose pregnancy worsens the underlying pathology may be denied a medically indicated therapeutic abortion under the statute because death is not certain.
Katha Pollitt
Open the doors of your heart and they will come…And for every cruel arrow,Sweet caresses of delirium alsoTo nourish your soul.
Scott Hastie
Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.
Alexander Pope
The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
Robert W. Service
Now we go in and take over," answered A. "It's our duty to help these people.
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer
There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.And there are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.In the bosom of such as these the spirit dwells in rhythmic silence.
Kahlil Gibran
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.
Mary F. Robinson
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.
Eric Vance Walton
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo
William Shakespeare
Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources.
Santosh Kalwar
To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
George Santayana
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I could really use someone else's smile today.
Richelle E. Goodrich
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
Robert Frost
I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.
Santosh Kalwar
Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.
Richelle E. Goodrich
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Margaret Walker
Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.
Criss Jami
I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us.
Roman Payne
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost
Out of love,No regrets--Though the goodnessBe wasted forever.Out of love,No regrets--Though the returnBe never.
Langston Hughes
Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.
Rainer Maria Rilke
there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.
Charles Bukowski
And in fact the artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss. And if instead of "heat" one could say "sex";- sex in the great, pure sense of the word, free of any sin attached to it by the Church, - then his art would be very great and infinitely important. His poetic power is great and as strong as a primal instinct; it has its own relentless rhythms in itself and explodes from him like a volcano.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crates/as thought it made sense/and take them when we go/to other states.
Kay Ryan
The map is more interesting than the territory.
Michel Houellebecq
So, the world happens twice--once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.
William Stafford
The amorous shepherd has lost his staff,And his sheep are straying on the hillside,And he didn’t even play the flute he brought to play because he was thinking so much.No one came to him or went away. He never found his staff again.Others, cursing at him, gathered his sheep for him.No one had loved him, in the end.When he got up from the hillside and the false truth, he saw everything:The great valleys full of the same green as always,The great distant mountains, more real than any feeling,All reality, with the sky and the air and the fields that exist, is present.(And once again the air, that he’d missed for so long, entered coolly into his lungs)And he felt that the air was opening again, but with pain, a liberty in his chest.(7/10/1930)
Alberto Caeiro
I love not man the less, but nature more
George Gordon Byron
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.
Christine de Pizan
Our doubts are traitors, and make us loose the good that we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.
Criss Jami
There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
Criss Jami
Those lips that Love's own hand did makeBreathed forth the sound that said, 'I hate'To me that languished for her sake,But, when she saw my woeful state,Straight in her heart did mercy come,Chiding that tongue that ever sweetWas used in giving gentle doom,And taught it thus anew to greet:'I hate,' she altered with an endThat followed it as gentle dayDoth follow night, who like a fiendFrom Heaven to Hell is flown away.'I hate' from hate away she threwAnd saved my life, saying 'not you'.
William Shakespeare
A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.
Alberto Caeiro
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be.
Christopher Marlowe
Some souls are just meant to be for each other forever, and ever, and ever!
Avijeet Das
They gathered after mass, sang hymns and read. Everyone had grown even more serene; beneath the sisters' kerchiefs it was as if there were no faces. When they met Daryushka — it was as if they bowed down lower. She was walking in the Spirit.Daryushka was entirely serene. She was thinking of nothing, had turned within herself, peering inside; and inside her all was smiling ever so gently.After the storm clear days came, frosty, crackling, clear days. Snow and sky, snow and sky, and the sky was even brighter, whiter, from the snow — and the snow sparkled with blue fires from the sky.Daryushka went down to the river with buckets, to the ice-hole. She went down to the landing alone... Snow, and sky, and brilliance...("He Has Descended")
Zinaida Gippius
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare