Quotes by Poets - Page 327

I don't know much about being a millionaire but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
Dorothy Parker
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
Margaret Atwood
Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.
Richelle E. Goodrich
and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear master’s work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous as sunlight upon snowy, unscalable peaks.
Álvaro de Campos
Then a boy, pale as death, rushed into the hall, uttering a wild scream of terror. “Death and another are closely pursuing me!
Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué
Do you know that I can't remember her face? Try as I may, it will not be conjured. I can tell you what she looked like; I can recite a description of her features, part by part, but I cannot evoke the whole face.''Don't you have a photograph?''Photographs!' He spat out the word. 'I'm talking about true recollection - seeing the face.
Siri Hustvedt
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
It is hard to remember.”“Remember what?”“All that goes into the making of any one moment we live. There are things one must try to remember. Do you know what is the hardest thing to remember?”“No,” Adam said.“Well, I’ll tell you, my son,” Aaron Blaustein said. “The hardest thing to remember is that other men are men.” He leaned to set his cup down. “But that,” he said, “is the only way you can be a man yourself. Can be anything.
Robert Penn Warren
The Quiet WorldIn an effort to get people to lookinto each other’s eyes more,and also to appease the mutes,the government has decidedto allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day.When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup.I am adjusting well to the new way.Late at night, I call my long distance lover, I only used fifty-nine today. When she doesn’t respond,I know she’s used up all her words, thirty-two and a third times.After that, we just sit on the line and listen to each other breathe.
Jeffrey McDaniel
There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.
Mark Nepo
The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.
Harry Kemp
waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come
Charles Bukowski
People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.
Kamand Kojouri
But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?"Catherine: "I cannot tell."Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.
William Shakespeare
Here, illuminated at last,Nestles the ruddy glint of spiritual certainty;Sweet moments of passion and healing,Of sensual release.
Scott Hastie
They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.
Maya Angelou
I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?
William Shakespeare
You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Time ... is the life of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.
T.S Eliot
He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.
Mervyn Peake
Deciding to actively heal is terrifying because it means opening up to hope. For many survivors, hope has brought only disappointment.Although it is terrifying to say yes to yourself, it is also a tremendous relief when you finally stop and face your own demons. There is something about looking terror in the face, and seeing your own reflection, that is strangely relieving. There is comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal. As one survivor put it, "I know now that every time I acceptmy past and respect where I am in the present, I am giving myself a future."- The Courage to Heal
Ellen Bass
And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.
Jack Kerouac
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
William Shakespeare
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event
Gaston Bachelard
There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
T.S Eliot
Energy is the belief in a separation and that which creates and keeps the illusion alive.
Vivian Amis
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison
Une philosophie doit etre portative.
Paul Valéry
You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.
Orna Ross
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.
Siri Hustvedt
When getting my nose in a bookCured most things short of school,It was worth ruining my eyesTo know I could still keep cool,And deal out the old right hookTo dirty dogs twice my size.Later, with inch-thick specs,Evil was just my lark:Me and my coat and fangsHad ripping times in the dark.The women I clubbed with sex!I broke them up like meringues.Don't read much now: the dudeWho lets the girl down beforeThe hero arrives, the chapWho's yellow and keeps the storeSeem far too familiar. Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.(A Study Of Reading Habits)
Philip Larkin
A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
Criss Jami
You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
These paintings say Mexico is an ancient thing that will still go on forever telling its own story in slabs of color leaves and fruits and proud naked Indians in a history without shame. Their great city of Tenochtitlan is still here beneath our shoes and history was always just like today full of markets and wanting.
Barbara Kingsolver
It's not the endings that will haunt youBut the space where they should lie,The things that simply fadedWithout one final wave goodbye.
Erin Hanson
Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.
Ntozake Shange
With you, I am. Without you, I am not.
Kamand Kojouri
A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
Lord Byron
Them lady poets must not marry, pal.
John Berryman
Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.
Kahlil Gibran
When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.
Kathleen Norris
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
Lawrence Durrell
And wilt thou have me fashion into speechThe love I bear thee, finding words enough,And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,Between our faces, to cast light on each? -I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teachMy hand to hold my spirits so far offFrom myself--me--that I should bring thee proofIn words, of love hid in me out of reach.Nay, let the silence of my womanhoodCommend my woman-love to thy belief, -Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed,And rend the garment of my life, in brief,By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude,Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.
Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
Saadi
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?
Mary Oliver
What have they done to the earth?What have they done to our fair sister?Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit herStuck her with knives in the side of the dawnAnd tied her with fences and dragged her down
Jim Morrison
I know noble accentsAnd lucid, inescapable rhythms;But I know, too,That the blackbird is involvedIn what I know.
Wallace Stevens
stayi whisperedas youshut the door behind you
Rupi Kaur
The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.
Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul see where it flies! -
Christopher Marlowe
Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.
Carol Ann Duffy
Today is just another day of trying to get by without you.
Ranata Suzuki
Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
Barbara Kingsolver
Let us revenge this withour pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know Ispeak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.
William Shakespeare